U.S. Customs and Border Protection has not published data on deaths on its website since the fiscal year 2020, record keeping is patchy, and some migrants who die are never found or identified.
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New policies, court decisions and border trends have added to the agency’s expenses.
Immigration has historically been the purview of the federal government, and states have refrained from seeking to enforce federal immigration laws themselves.
The court backlog has ballooned to the largest ever and the American Immigration Lawyers Association estimates that there are at least 700,000 pending deportation and asylum cases.
Of the more than 7,200 arrests made by state police over seven months, about 40 percent involved only charges of trespassing on private property.
Governor Abbott, the Department of Public Safety, and the Texas Military Department have fought two dozen public records requests from news organizations that would provide a clearer picture of the operation’s accomplishments, considering their touting of thousands of criminal arrests and millions of doses of lethal drugs — without substantial evidence.
On the eve of the election, Trump adviser Stephen Miller outlined the administration’s tougher immigration plans for a second term, including stricter travel bans and work visa restrictions, limiting asylum grants, and “outlawing” the sanctuary policies adapted by many cities and counties.
Responding to reports that a new Trump administration policy is forcing undocumented migrant parents to choose between family separation and indefinite detention in crowded facilities riven with COVID-19, a group of faith, law enforcement and policy leaders called last month for an immediate end to this “binary choice.”