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FILE - A Mexican smuggler guides a Haitian family across the Morelos Dam over the Colorado River from Los Algodones, Mexico, on Feb. 4, 2022, to Yuma, Ariz., on the other side. Chris Magnus has many challenges to overcome in his new role as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In an interview with The Associated Press, Magnus acknowledged morale problems within the nation's largest law enforcement agency but offered no quick answers to the heavy migration flow to the U.S., which attracts more asylum seekers than any other country. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat, File)

Hidden inflation on Biden’s watch: Prices in migrant smuggling economy soar to $2.6 billion

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants gather their personal items as they wait to be processed by the Border Patrol after illegally crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico into the United States at Eagle Pass, Texas, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. Venezuelans have surpassed Guatemalans and Hondurans to become the second-largest nationality stopped at the U.S. border in August 2022 after Mexicans. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

$20 billion payday: Biden’s border surge sends smuggling prices soaring

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, center in chains, is shown to the press at the Police Headquarters in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. Police arrested Hernandez at his home, following a request by the United States government for his extradition on drug trafficking and weapons charges. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez)

A stunning fall for ex-Honduran president wanted in U.S.

By Marlon Gonzalez and Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez answers questions from the Associated Press, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, as he leaves a meeting at the Organization of American States, in Washington. The U.S. government is formally requesting on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, the arrest and extradition of ex-president Hernandez. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin,File)

U.S. asks Honduras to arrest, extradite ex-President Hernandez

By Marlon Gonzalez and Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks from Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, in Washington. Harris will lead a U.S. delegation to Honduras on Thursday to attend the inauguration and hold migration talks with newly elected President Xiomara Castro, a socialist who has become weakened politically even before she takes office. (Greg Nash/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Harris to visit Honduras for migration talks with the new president

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Vice President Kamala Harris pauses as she fills bags with produce, to answer a reporter's question about voting rights, at Martha's Table, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

VP Harris to travel to Honduras as migrant caravans from that country headed for U.S.

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Members of a migrant caravan begin their journey in the hopes of reaching the United States, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)

Hundreds of migrants set off from Honduras toward U.S. border

By Claudio Escalon - Associated Press

Free Party presidential candidate Xiomara Castro acknowledges her supporters after general elections, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021. Castro claimed victory, setting up a showdown with the National Party which said its candidate had won a vote that could end the conservative party's 12 years in power. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Honduras election a cause for celebration — in China

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 26, 2019, file photo, migrants are held in a van of the National Migration Institute after they were found in the cargo hold of a truck where dozens of Central American migrants were being smuggled, at an immigration checkpoint in Medellin de Bravo, Veracruz state, Mexico. Except for official border crossings, nearly every mile of river, desert and mountain along the U.S.-Mexican border is under the control of Mexico's organized crime rings, which decide who can cross and how much they will pay. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) ** FILE **

EXCLUSIVE: Border surge sends prices soaring; smugglers can earn $200,000

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A resident receives the AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 as others wait for their turn at an apartment building in Bengaluru, India, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Indian authorities are scrambling to get medical oxygen to hospitals where COVID-19 patients are suffocating from low supplies. The effort Saturday comes as the country with the world's worst coronavirus surge set a new global daily record of infections for the third straight day. The 346,786 infections over the past day brought India's total past 16 million. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

From scarcity to abundance: U.S. faces calls to share vaccines

By Marlon González and Zeke Miller - Associated Press

Dwight Cenac shows how his name was inscribed on his ring that was returned after 20 years, on Friday April 16, 2021, in Atlantic Beach, Fla. In 2001 Dwight was on a flight to Los Angeles when his graduation ring from Seacoast Christian Academy in Jacksonville, was lost. In December of 2020 he was contacted by a woman from Honduras saying that her husband had found the ring almost 20 years earlier along the shore of a coastal island. (Bob Mack /The Florida Times-Union via AP)

Ocean floor to original owner: A ring’s 20-year journey

By MATT SOERGEL and Florida Times-Union - Associated Press

Honduran woman exits Utah church after 3 years in sanctuary

By SOPHIA EPPOLITO - Associated Press

Businessmen in Honduras say they’ll buy coronavirus vaccines

Associated Press

Davidson Jair, 7, answers questions from a U.S. Border Patrol agent at an intake site after he was smuggled on an inflatable raft across the Rio Grande river in Roma, Texas, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Davidson traveled from El Salvador in the hope of reaching relatives living in the U.S. The Biden administration says that it's working to address the increase in migrants coming to the border. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House efforts at the U.S. southern border and work with Central American nations to address root causes of the migration. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

US envoy talks migration with El Salvador, VP calls Mexico

Associated Press

An alleged mastermind of the murder of Honduran environmental and Indigenous rights activist Berta Caceres, Roberto David Castillo is escorted by a police officer upon his arrival to the Supreme Court in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Catillo’s trial began five years after the prize-winning activist's murder. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez)

Honduras trial in Indigenous activist’s murder paused

By MARLON GONZÁLEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 16, 2017, file photo, Juan Antonio &quot;Tony&quot; Hernandez, brother of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, arrives for a press conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Juan Hernández, a former Honduran congressman, has been sentenced to life in prison Tuesday, March 30, 2021, for his conviction on drug charges in Manhattan federal court. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio, File)

Brother of Honduran president sentenced to life in drug case

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

Mexico's Uriel Antuna, left, and United States' Aaron Herrera fight for the ball during a Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifying championship soccer match in Guadalajara, Mexico, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

US plays Honduras for berth in men’s Olympic soccer in Japan

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris meets with President Joe Biden, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden asks VP Harris to lead on border-surge negotiations

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo rioters supporting President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Lonnie Coffman, man found with guns, Molotov cocktails at Capitol riot, hires high-powered attorney

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaks to the reporters as he leaves a meeting at the Organization of American States, in Washington. Newly proposed U.S. legislation introduced Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, targets Orlando Hernandez as allegations of ties to drug trafficking grow. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Honduran drug trafficker convicted in US trial

By CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press