Good morning. Welcome to Exios today. It's Wednesday, July 26. I'm Nailiburu. Today on the show,

the rise of therapy speak. Plus, UPS and its workers reach a deal. But first, how courts are

driving U.S. immigration policy. That's today's one big thing.

Earlier this week, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the State of Texas

for putting up barriers in the Rio Grande River to stop migrants from swimming across.

And just yesterday, a California judge struck down the Biden administration's

temporary restriction on migrants seeking asylum. Both of these instances cited violation

of federal laws. But the federal government's immigration policy and migrants access to protections

are often at the whim of U.S. courts. Here to help us dig deeper is Exios Immigration reporter

Stepkite. Hi, Staff. Hi, Naila. Can you just catch us up on the situation with migrants right now

at the southern border? So over the past couple months, the number of migrants and asylum seekers

illegally crossing the U.S. Mexico border has actually declined pretty significantly.

And this is way different than what a lot of experts were expecting after the end of the pandemic

policy called Title 42, which ended back in May. In June, we had less than 100,000 people illegally

crossed the border, which was the first time we were under 100,000 since 2021.

Why did the governor of Texas Greg Abbott put up barriers in the Rio Grande River?

Obviously, Greg Abbott does not think that President Biden is doing enough at the border that

he's still letting in too many migrants, too many asylum seekers. And so Abbott has kind of

taken it into his own hands. They've been increasingly using barbed wire along the border. There's

been reporting that state police have been yelling at migrants to turn around.

And we've seen more and more reports of them taking these aggressive strategies to try to keep

migrants and asylum seekers back. So on what grounds is the Justice Department filing a lawsuit

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