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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives a media briefing from the National Palace in Mexico City, Oct. 2, 2024, the morning after her inauguration. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexican president acknowledges army killings of 3 civilians in a violent border city

By Fabiola Sánchez - Associated Press

U.S. asylum-seekers being returned by U.S. authorities under the so-called Remain in Mexico program are escorted by a Mexican migration agent as they walk back into Nuevo, Laredo Mexico, across the international bridge from Laredo, Texas, Wednesday, July 10, 2019. The Biden administration has stopped taking appointments via its mobile phone app from asylum seekers in a notoriously dangerous and corrupt Mexican border city amid signs migrants who used it were being targeted for extortion. (AP Photo/Salvador Gonzalez) **FILE**

Online asylum appointments halted at 1 Texas crossing because of Mexican city’s safety woes

By Valerie Gonzales and Julie Watson - Associated Press

Migrants congregate on the banks of the Rio Grande at the U.S. border with Mexico, Dec. 20, 2022, where members of the Texas National Guard cordoned off a gap in the U.S. border wall. The Biden administration has stopped taking appointments via its mobile phone app from asylum seekers in a notoriously dangerous and corrupt Mexican border city amid signs migrants who used it were being targeted for extortion.(AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)

U.S. halts online asylum appointments at Texas crossing after extortion warnings

By Valerie Gonzalez and Julie Watson - Associated Press

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at the National Palace in Mexico City, Jan. 10, 2023. Mexico’s president described the slayings of five men caught on security camera footage as an apparent “execution” by soldiers, and vowed Wednesday, June 7, 2023, that the perpetrators would face justice. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexican president: Soldiers apparently executed five men, will face prosecution

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A U.S. Border Patrol car drives along the Rio Grande in Brownsville, Texas, as seen from Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Hundreds of migrants from Central America, South America, the Caribbean and Africa have been waiting for their number to be called at the bridge in downtown Matamoros, to have the opportunity to request asylum in the U.S. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Laredo man kidnapped, taken to Mexico after bragging about stealing $50K from cartel

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Priscilla Villarreal, an online journalist from Laredo, Texas, stands outside the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals building in New Orleans on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, with her attorney, J.T. Morris, after the court heard arguments in Villarreal's lawsuit against Laredo and Webb County, Texas, authorities. Her suit says she was wrongfully arrested by Laredo and Webb County authorities in 2017 for seeking information from police. The criminal charge against her was dismissed by a Texas judge in 2018. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill)

Citizen journalist’s lawsuit heard by federal appeals court

By Kevin McGill - Associated Press

Cars and trucks line up to enter the U.S. from Mexico at a border crossing in El Paso, Texas, Friday, March 29, 2019. Threatening drastic action against Mexico, President Donald Trump declared on Friday that he is likely to shut down America's southern border next week unless Mexican authorities immediately halt all illegal immigration. Such a severe move could hit the economies of both countries, but the president emphasized, &quot;I am not kidding around.&quot; (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Rodney Tolson Jr., Border Patrol agent, charged with smuggling migrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Latest: Police chief says officers ‘basically ambushed’

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Cartel blockades, gunfire leave 1 dead in Mexico border city

By ALFREDO PEÑA - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, NOV. 17, 2019 AND THEREAFTER- In this Sept. 17, 2019 photo, a U.S. border patrol officer directs a Nicaraguan migrant family, who is applying for asylum in the U.S., over International Bridge 1 from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico into Laredo, Texas, for an interview with immigration officials. The U.S. has set limits on applicants for asylum, slowing the number to a mere trickle, while the policy known colloquially as “Remain in Mexico,” has meant the return of more than 55,000 asylum-seekers to the country while their requests meander through backlogged courts. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Migrants thrust by US officials into the arms of the cartels

By MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, NOV. 17, 2019 AND THEREAFTER- In this Sept. 17, 2019 photo, a U.S. border patrol officer directs a Nicaraguan migrant family, who is applying for asylum in the U.S., over International Bridge 1 from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico into Laredo, Texas, for an interview with immigration officials. The U.S. has set limits on applicants for asylum, slowing the number to a mere trickle, while the policy known colloquially as “Remain in Mexico,” has meant the return of more than 55,000 asylum-seekers to the country while their requests meander through backlogged courts. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Migrants stuck in lawless limbo within sight of America

By MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

Laredo, Texas, population 260K, issues boil-water notice

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Cuban Abel Oset Jr., center, and his father Abel Oset, behind him, show their identification to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer before their appointments to apply for asylum in United States, as they cross International Bridge 1 to leave Nuevo Laredo, Mexico and enter Laredo, Texas, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Tent courtrooms opened Monday in two Texas border cities to help process thousands of migrants who are being forced by the Trump administration to wait in Mexico while their requests for asylum wind through clogged immigration courts. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Migrants say they face danger before court in Texas tents

By MARIA VERZA and JOHN L. MONE - Associated Press

Stuff animals, story books and small chairs fill the Juvenile waiting area at the Migrant Protection Protocols Immigration Hearing Facilities in Laredo, Tuesday, September 10, 2019. The facility is schedule to open for hearings for immigrants seeking asylum on Monday, September 16, 2019. (Ricardo Santos/The Laredo Morning Times via AP)

Tent courts for migrants waiting in Mexico closed to outside

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Mexican cartel forces gas stations to refuse army vehicles

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In this July 18, 2019, file photo, a migrant child and his father stay together after being bused by Mexican migration authorities from Nuevo Laredo to Monterrey, Mexico. Unlike asylum seekers who wait in line, often for months, to file claims in the U.S. and then return to the Mexican border cities where they were before, all those taken to Monterrey who spoke with AP said they had crossed illegally and spent several days in U.S. detention centers before being returned with a court date. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Hundreds of U.S. returnees dumped in Mexico’s Monterrey

By Maria Verza - Associated Press

Pastor Aaron Mendes speaks to migrants staying at his AMAR migrant shelter in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Asylum-seekers grappled to understand what a new U.S. policy that all but eliminates refugee claims by Central Americans and many others meant for their bids to find a better life in America amid a chaos of rumors, confusion and fear. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Asylum seekers waiting in Nuevo Laredo fear lurking dangers

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Lucia Ascencio, of Venezuela, carries a suitcase after she and her husband and two sons were returned to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, as part of the first group of migrants sent back to Mexico's Tamaulipas state under the so-called Remain in Mexico program for U.S. asylum seekers, Tuesday, July 9, 2019. Approximately 10 migrants crossed the border Monday to seek U.S. asylum and were sent back on Tuesday to wait as their applications are processed. (AP Photo/Salvador Gonzalez)

US returns first asylum seekers to violent Nuevo Laredo

By JUAN ANTONIO CALDERON and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - This file photo provided by the Webb County Sheriff's Office shows U.S. Border Patrol agent Juan David Ortiz. Ortiz, who confessed to shooting four women in the head and leaving their bodies on rural Texas roadsides, was indicted Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, on a capital murder charge. (Webb County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

The Latest: Prosecutor calls woman who escaped ‘very brave’

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Law enforcement officers gather near the scene where the body of a woman was found near Interstate 35 north of Laredo, Texas on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. A U.S. Border Patrol agent suspected of killing four women was arrested early Saturday after a fifth woman who had been abducted managed to escape from him and notify authorities, law enforcement officials said, describing the agent as a &quot;serial killer.&quot; (Danny Zaragoza/The Laredo Morning Times via AP)

The Latest: Border Patrol agent targeted vulnerable women

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