Takeaways from the Texas Tribune-Associated Press report on 24 hours along the Texas-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 where, 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.