The number of migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border dropped on Friday, a senior U.S. border official told Reuters, saying it signaled a restrictive new Biden administration policy was deterring some illegal immigration.

U.S. Border Patrol arrested around 3,100 people crossing illegally, down roughly 20% from the days before, the official said, requesting anonymity to discuss preliminary figures.

"It's still too early to say this is a definitive trend," the official said. "But I think it is indicative of some possible early success."

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On Sunday, the governing coalition around the National Regeneration Movement — also known as Morena — of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador trounced the opposition alliance in thousands of federal, state and local races in Mexico’s biggest election ever.

Claudia Sheinbaum, Morena’s presidential candidate, secured at least 58.8 percent of the vote, unheard of since the advent of multiparty democracy at the turn of the century, beating her main rival, Xóchitl Gálvez, by a whopping 30 percentage points.

Claudia Sheinbaum has secured the Mexican presidency in a landslide victory to become the country's first female president in its over 200-year history.

The 61-year-old former climate scientist will succeed incumbent president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also of the left-wing Morena party, who has held the office since 2018.

Newsweek has mapped Sheinbaum's victory in three charts.

On Sunday, Claudia Sheinbaum was elected president of Mexico. She will take office on Oct. 1. She is a leftist who blames capitalism for the millions of Mexicans who live in poverty.

President Joe Biden is expected to issue a sweeping new executive order aimed at curbing migrant arrivals at the US-Mexico border as early as Tuesday.

Under the planned order, US officials could swiftly deport migrants who enter the US illegally without processing their asylum requests once a daily threshold is met, according to CBS.

That, in turn, will allow border officials to limit the amount of migrant arrivals, three unnamed sources briefed on the expected order told CBS, the BBC's news partner.

This is a great item from Bill Melugin at Fox. An illegal immigrant from Turkey can’t believe how lax we are, and thinks it’s dangerous:

This is also a symptom of Joe Biden’s political problems. If this guy could vote, he’d clearly be with Trump on the border issue alone.

The U.S. Border Patrol has lost nearly a quarter of its workforce since Democratic candidate Joe Biden beat incumbent Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, and some agents say it is no coincidence.

More than 4,000 federal agents have left the Border Patrol since October 2020. Twice as many agents have chosen to retire early compared to retirement rates during the Obama and Trump administrations.

While the border crisis has become a major liability for President Biden, threatening his reelection chances, it’s become a huge boon to a group of nonprofits getting rich off government contracts.

Although the federally funded Unaccompanied Children Program is responsible for resettling unaccompanied migrant minors who enter the U.S., it delegates much of the task to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that run shelters in the border states of Texas, Arizona, and California.

Authorities in West Texas have begun to see illegal immigrants aiding criminal networks in the stealing of truckloads of valuable oil and materials from the nation’s largest oilfields in the Permian Basin.

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), whose district spans 800 miles of the Texas border, organized federal and local law enforcement in the region Friday to come up with a plan of attack as the largest U.S. oilfield, the Permian Basin, continues to get hit by thieves. The matter is not only a border security matter but an energy security problem.