Here is were U.S. law places the goalposts for asylum. The June rule moved the goalposts, all but deleting "whether or not at a designated port of arrival" whenever the border gets busy. Now that the border is less busy, they'd move the goalposts again, redefining "busy."

Venezuelan security forces and armed groups aligned with the government committed widespread violence against protesters and killed some of them after the country’s disputed presidential election, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. nyti.ms/3XhyT6j

Through a FOIA request, I received a database showing how the Tucson sector BP triaged and ultimately addressed 911 calls believed to be from migrants that were redirected from local county dispatchers to CBP in 2022.

Through his election integrity unit, Texas AG Paxton has aggressively charged individuals with election fraud — with enormous costs for those accused. Records we obtained suggest that since 2016, only one of the unit’s at least 169 cases of alleged fraud have led to a judgment.

The numbers may grow, but they reflect police assessments for weeks that TdA activity is isolated and relatively small: 10 suspected members in a city of 400,000, six of whom have been in custody since late July, before anyone started talking about this.

Our S&L team at American Immigration Council is looking for a *paid* fall intern to start ASAP! Responsibilities include: tracking/analyzing state and local immigration policies, helping draft research reports on immigrants’ contributions, providing overall support to our team, & much more. 1/2

Tester's long run of winning in a red state may finally be over. The odds of a double flip (GOP takes the Senate, Dems take the House) are going up.

Trump's actual, insane answer vs. how NYT cleaned it up for him:

This is a for-real genuine problem: leading media reporting a version of events you wouldn't recognize if you saw or listened to it yourself. (I listened to this speech. In a million years would not have written this summary.) Please, someone from the NYT, actually engage with

Are 32,000 migrant children really missing? The Inspector General report that says so is missing important context. immcouncil.co/3yXLELh

Speaking of nominees for Senate-appointed positions, my prediction is that regardless of who wins the election in November, ICE will continue to have no Senate-appointed leader. ICE is now midway through year 7 without a Senate-confirmed head.

NEW: Judge J. Randal Hall (GWB) in Georgia this morning issued a nationwide TRO blocking the Education Dep't from implementing a different student loan relief rule. (The judge just adopted the suing states' description of it as the "third mass cancellation" plan.)