Immigration

Adding border issues to already fraught talks could derail the process with only days left until the U.S. could default on its debts.

Republican attorneys general last year filed a request to prevent the unwinding of Title 42, a policy tied to the Covid emergency that allowed asylum-seekers to be expelled quickly.

The numbers are a significant increase from when the Florida governor sent assistance to Texas in 2021.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he's sending more than 1,100 state law enforcement agents and National Guard members to Texas’ southern border with Mexico.

At the same time, the overall number of migrants crossing the southern border declined Monday for the fourth straight day since the end of the Title 42 Covid ban.

The police department said its goal is to "protect" and not to get involved in a "political issue " like immigration, but that doesn't mean Florida's statewide agencies will do the same.

Since Title 42 was lifted on Thursday, the number of migrants crossing the United States’ southern border has dropped dramatically. Now as migrants are shipped north, a humanitarian crisis is brewing as cities rush to create housing to meet the recent influx. NBC News’ George Solis has the latest.

Still, the homeland security secretary cautioned it’s “too early” to tell whether the migrant surge has peaked since Title 42 expired.

CBP stopped just over 6,200 undocumented migrants on Friday compared with roughly 11,000 on Tuesday and Wednesday and 10,000 on Thursday.

An investigation is underway into the death of a 17-year-old who migrated from Honduras. The teenager died in the custody of a Florida facility. NBC's Guad Venegas reports.

Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza, 17, was taken to a local hospital, where he died.