Texas border towns

The measles outbreak has claimed at least two lives so far. Texas will share its own update on the outbreak on Friday.

Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Customs and Border Protection have signed an agreement that allows Texas guardsmen to make immigration arrests on the border.

It was a change from the Republican governor's legal battles with the Biden administration. Abbott spent the last four years testing a state's ability to enforce immigration law — at times at odds with Border Patrol.

The troops will be stationed in El Paso and San Diego, Calif.

After a weekend farewell ceremony, Oklahoma is sending 50 National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. Gov. Kevin Stitt ordered the deployment earlier this summer, following a request from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

According to a release by the City of Pharr, the estimated trade value lost at the Pharr-Reynosa International bridge was $202 million per day, or $1 billion over the course of time that Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security measures increased inspection times from hours to days.

A former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official told congressional investigators that the decision to begin expelling migrants at the border under U.S. Health Code Title 42 during Trump’s tenure “wasn’t based on a public health assessment.”

Aunque la administración Biden puso fin formalmente a la política de "medición" de migrantes en los puertos de entrada, los defensores de los derechos civiles y de los migrantes dicen que todavía se rechaza a los solicitantes de asilo.

Though the Biden administration formally ended the migrant “metering” policy at ports of entry, migrant and civil rights advocates say asylum seekers are still being turned away.

The reopening marked the reunification of families who haven't seen each other for 20 months and a return of commerce and tourism for hundreds of thousands of daily travelers along the world's busiest land border.