Takeaways from an AP and Texas Tribune report on 24 hours along the US-Mexico border

The Texas Tribune and The Associated Press spent 24 hours in five cities on Texas’ border with Mexico to measure the impact of a dramatic drop in migrant crossings. In Ciudad Juárez, across from El Paso, no one was camping here, just a few months earlier, hundreds of asylum-seeking families waited for an opening to crawl through razor wire. In McAllen, Border Patrol agents scanned fields for five hours without encountering a single migrant. But conditions on the border often shift more rapidly than political rhetoric, and no one would have known how quiet it was listening that night to Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump at campaign rallies.