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Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.

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In this Thursday, May 2, 2019, photo, Border Patrol agents hold a news conference prior to a media tour of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facility near the Donna International Bridge in Donna, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Illegal immigrant who tried to escape dies in Border Patrol custody

An illegal immigrant who became "unruly" and tried to escape from agents in Texas last week became "unresponsive" and died soon after, the Border Patrol said Friday, saying the incident has sparked a review of how migrants are detained and transported in the field. Published August 6, 2021

Three young migrants hold hands as they run in the rain at an intake area after turning themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in Roma, Texas. The number of unaccompanied children encountered on the U.S. border with Mexico in April eased from an all-time high a month earlier, while more adults were found coming without families, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

New record for illegal immigrant kids at border

Agents and officers detained 834 illegal immigrant children traveling the border without parents on Tuesday, shattering the previous daily total in records released by the Department of Homeland Security and signaling the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border is deteriorating. Published August 5, 2021

In this Thursday, June 10, 2021, photo, a pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia) **FILE**

MS-13 arrests plummet amid border surge

Border arrests of MS-13 gang members have dropped dramatically amid the new border surge, a senior Republican senator said this week, warning that the criminals are still sneaking across but they're avoiding detection amid the chaos of the unprecedented wave of illegal immigration. Published August 5, 2021

A Border Patrol vehicle sits near the border wall separating Mexicali, Mexico from Calexico, Calif., in Calexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Border wall workers pelted by rocks from Mexico

People on the Mexican side of the border pelted U.S. construction workers making repairs on the border wall in Arizona this week, Homeland Security Department officials said Thursday. Published August 5, 2021

In this Tuesday, June 8, 2021, photo, a group of Brazilian migrants make their way around a gap in the U.S.-Mexico border in Yuma, Ariz., seeking asylum in the United States after crossing over from Mexico. The Biden administration says it has identified more than 3,900 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" policy on illegal crossings. The Border Patrol's Yuma sector recorded the highest number of separations of the agency's nine sectors on the Mexican border. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia) **FILE**

Illegal immigrants from Brazil soar at border, up 114,000%

Illegal immigrants from Brazil are streaming across the U.S.-Mexico border at astronomical rates, Homeland Security officials said Wednesday, calling them a unique strain on the nation's border defenses in southern California. Published August 4, 2021

In this June 12, 2018, photo, Mitchell, S.D., Assistant Police Chief Michael Koster shows a first-generation body camera at the police department in Mitchell, S.D. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on August 4, 2021, announced that it has outfitted its first group of Border Patrol agents with body cameras as part of a push to get 6,000 cameras into the field by the end of this year. (Briana Sanchez/The Argus Leader via AP, File)/The Argus Leader via AP) **FILE**

Border agents, officers start using body cameras

Homeland Security has outfitted a first group of Border Patrol agents with body cameras as part of a push to get 6,000 cameras into the field by the end of this year, the department announced Wednesday. Published August 4, 2021

In this Thursday, June 10, 2021, photo, a pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum. The American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups say they are ending settlement talks with the Biden administration over a demand to lift a pandemic-related ban on families seeking asylum in the United States. The breakdown comes three days after two nongovernmental organizations said they were halting work with the administration to identify particularly vulnerable migrants stuck in Mexico for exemptions to Title 42, named for a 1944 public health law. The administration has denied many families and nearly all single adults an opportunity to seek asylum on grounds of preventing spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia) **FILE**

Biden admin embraces Trump’s Title 42 border policy, ACLU renews court battle

The Biden administration signaled Monday that it plans to keep the so-called Title 42 coronavirus border shutdown in place a while longer, dashing hopes of immigrant-rights advocates who'd believed the government would soon lift the policy and stop expelling some illegal immigrants. Published August 2, 2021

In this Tuesday, June 8, 2021, photo, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a news conference in Austin, Texas. Abbott, who faces a contested reelection primary next year, is pushing looser gun laws than he ever previously embraced and proposing unprecedented state actions, including promises to build more walls on the Mexican border. Similar scenes are playing out in campaigns in other red states including Arkansas and Idaho, where ultra-right-wing challengers are tapping into anger among Republicans over Trump’s election loss and coronavirus-related lockdowns. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Biden DOJ sues to stop Texas border crackdown

The federal Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday to block Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's latest attempt to fill gaps in border security with a policy that allows state troopers to stop and turn back vehicles carrying illegal immigrants away from the boundary region. Published July 30, 2021