Daily #Border Links: April 11, 2024

Mayorkas testified twice yesterday. Executive action to limit asylum access still on the table. Migration is dropping at the border, and San Diego may become the top destination.

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Daily #Border Links: April 10, 2024

Biden still considering executive action to curb asylum. DHS Sec Mayorkas testifies twice in Congress today. >34 migrants have died in El Paso Sector in FY24, even before summer.

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A vote at a UN meeting last month could have big, positive repercussions for drug policies worldwide. The ripple effect could save lives.

A new WOLA podcast gathers John Walsh, Lisa Sánchez, and Ann Fordham, who were in Vienna for this breakthrough.

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Daily #Border Links: April 9, 2024

#Mexico halts visa-free travel for #Peru : expect more Peruvians in Darién Gap. #Panama seeks to defend management of Darién #migration . Fentanyl seizures are down 27% from 2023.

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As of April 20, #Mexico will start requiring visas of citizens of #Peru arriving in the country, by air or otherwise.

Result: expect a sharp, almost immediate increase in the number of Peruvian citizens taking the dangerous route through the Darién Gap.

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Daily #Border Links: April 8, 2024

DHS Sec. Mayorkas says deportations to China may increase, and criticizes Texas's use of concertina wire. As Congress returns, don't expect a high-profile Mayorkas impeachment.

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Migration to Tucson, Arizona—Border Patrol's busiest sector since July—dropped by nearly half (46%) from the beginning of March to the end of March.

Same country that relied on the norm of the sanctity of diplomatic missions to keep Julian Assange in its embassy for 6+ years...

In this week's WOLA Border Update:

- #Migration appears to have slowed in March amid #Mexico crackdown
- Border wall falls and open-air encampments in San Diego
- SB4 has a day in court
- Darién migration clears 100,000; Human Rights Watch faults govts’ response

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Daily #Border Links: April 5, 2024

Court rules that Border Patrol must care for children in outdoor California camps. Alarming reports about attacks on migrants in Tamaulipas, Mexico and the Darién Gap.

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This is the first significant decline in fentanyl seizures since the drug started to appear.

Compared to same period in 2023:

- Marijuana +40%
- Meth +25%
- Cocaine -41%
- Fentanyl -24%
- Heroin -56%

(These numbers are _all_ CBP borders and coasts, not just US-Mexico border.)

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Daily #Border Links: April 4, 2024

5th Circuit hears arguments on Texas's SB4. Details emerge about a Guatemalan woman's fatal border wall fall. Mexican guardsmen abusing migrants along the border with California.

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Daily #Border Links: April 3, 2024

#Mexico deploys immigration agents to Ciudad Juárez. Donald Trump amplifies anti-migrant invective. Human Rights Watch publishes a big new Darién Gap report.

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Daily #Border Links: April 2, 2024

Leaked data point to 2% drop in #migration from February to March. Links to must-read essays about humanitarian migration, 'invasion' claims, and migrants from specific countries.

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