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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are both traveling to Texas border towns on Feb. 29, 2024, and are expected to fault each other for chaos in border enforcement and the high number of undocumented migrant crossings. Their dueling visits follow a failed Senate proposal to tighten border security and make it tougher for people to get asylum in the U.S. They also coincide with Americans’ rising concern about immigration. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been battling with the Biden administration since 2021 over the state’s ability to secure its border with Mexico. Under Abbott’s leadership, Texas has sent Texas National Guard troops and state troopers to its 1,254-mile-long border with Mexico. Texas is the only border state that has built its own wall, partially dividing itself from Mexico. Texas has also constructed more than 100 miles of other barriers along the border. I am a scholar of Texas politics and government at Rice University’s Baker Institute. T...

Title 42 restrictions are ending on May 11. The Department of Defense plans to send 1,500 additional active -duty troops to support the security mission along the U.S.-Mexico border for a temporary three-month period, according to a U.S. official, ahead of an expected surge of migrant s with the end of Title 42 restrictions on May 11. They will join 2,500 National Guard members already there on an active-duty status. A member of the Texas Army National Guard asks a migrant from China to come out of his hiding place after the man and others were smuggled across the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico, in Fronton, Texas, on April 5, 2023. Staff/Reuters MORE: Biden administration to launch regional processing centers for migrants throughout Central and South America Their mission will be to help with ground-based detection and monitoring, data entry, and warehouse support. The move comes after an executive order from President Joe Biden last week that authorized the s...

The Biden administration reached an immigration enforcement deal with Mexico as Title 42 neared end. MEXICO CITY -- When Emiliano, 51 years old, finally reached Mexico from his native Venezuela, he was detained by Mexico's immigration authority, known by its Spanish-language initials as INM. Imprisoned in a crowded room, he said he and other migrants were never given medications or access to their phones, even to let family know where they were. "When you enter that place, you lost your human rights," Emiliano, identified by only his last name to protect his identity, told Human Rights Watch, per the human rights monitor's recent report. "There were so many of us, we slept one on top of the other ... Half of us have COVID-19 symptoms. I was afraid I would die." Emiliano's experience is one of hundreds of thousands of migrants who have overwhelmed Mexico's migration authorities. But in an eleventh-hour deal with the Biden administration, Mexican P...

Significantly higher numbers had been expected with the end of Title 42. Biden administration officials said Monday that the numbers of migrants making unauthorized border crossings over the weekend continued to be significantly lower than expected but they were not ready to declare their plan a success just yet. "I think it's -- it's still too early to draw firm conclusions," Assistant Secretary for B order and Immigration Policy Blas Nuñez-Neto said in response to questions about the decline seen since last Thursday when the pandemic-era policy that allowed migrant s to be quickly expelled ended. "We are closely watching what's happening. We are confident that, you know, the plan that we have developed across the U.S. government to address these flows will work over time," he told reporters on Monday. U.S. Border Patrol agents made 14,752 migrant apprehensions in the past 72 hours, Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said in a tweet Monday. Unauthorized ...

Unlawful southern border entries have decreased 70% from record highs since end of Title 42, according to DHS. Unlawful entries along the southern border have decreased 70% from their record highs since the end of Title 42 on May 11, according the Department of Homeland Security. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has averaged 3,400 encounters in between ports of entry per day and fewer than 300 non-CBP One Office of Field Operations (OFO) encounters at ports of entry per day, for a total of approximately 3,700 unscheduled encounters per day, according to statistics released by DHS Tuesday morning. MORE: Mayorkas calls for new immigration law amid renewed scrutiny and tragedy at the border From May 12 to June 2, DHS repatriated over 38,400 noncitizens under Title 8 authorities, including single adults and families, to more than 80 countries. This includes over 1,400 noncitizens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who were returned to Mexico under Title 8 authorities -- the first...

The proposed barrier looks different from Trump's construction. President Joe Biden on Thursday said his administration had no choice but to build about 20 miles more southern border wall -- after he's long dismissed Donald Trump's wall as a waste of money that doesn't work to stop illegal immigration. "Money was appropriated for the border wall," Biden told reporters, referring to congressional action during the Trump administration. "I tried to get them to reappropriate -- to redirect the money. They didn't, they wouldn't. And in the meantime, there's nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what is appropriated. I can't stop that." The White House proposed funds for border barrier construction be rescinded in 2021, but Congress essentially ignored the request. Officials said a series of procedural regulatory steps were required before the project could move forward. The Biden administration is wai...

Hamas and Hezbollah militants associated with the Israel-Hamas war “may potentially be encountered at the southwest border," U.S. Customs and Border Protection warned Militants associated with the Israel-Hamas war “may potentially be encountered at the southwest border ," U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in San Diego recently warned in an internal intelligence notice. "[I]ndividuals inspired by, or reacting to, the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle east via circuituous transit across the Southwest border,” reads the notice, sent Friday, in part. MORE: Migrant crisis explained: What's behind the border surge The intel document shows various insignias worn by Hamas, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group. It informs CBP personnel to be vigilant for Military -age men wearing Military gear and Travel ing alone at the border . CBP intelligence offices reg...

Former Vice President Mike Pence vows to finish border wall, Vivek Ramaswamy staffer’s car is hit by a protester and other trail takeaways ABC News Photo Illustration / Alex Gilbeaux Former Vice President Mike Pence reacted to President Joe Biden's announcement that he will build more border wall, saying the plans aren't enough. And Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign is signaling a protester was responsible for a collision that involved a car rented by the campaign, but police say the driver "stated she was not in the area to protest." Meanwhile, Iowa Democrats made an announcement about the 2024 presidential campaign calendar. Here are Friday's trail takeaways . Republican presidential candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence attends an event, Oct. 3, 2023, held in partnership with Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service, at Georgetown University in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin/AP Pence on Biden border wall: 'Even a blind squi...