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A young migrant holding swimming inner tubes stands on the Mexican-side of the Rio Grande river, from where migrants swim across to the U.S. side, in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Pandemic-related U.S. asylum restrictions, known as Title 42, are to expire May 11. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Some scenes from the US-Mexico border, where immigration rules are set to change

By Anita Snow - Associated Press

Texas National Guard soldiers install new rows of barbed-wire near a gate at the border fence in El Paso, Texas, in the early hours of Thursday, May 11, 2023. Migrants rushed across the border hours before pandemic-related asylum restrictions were to expire Thursday, fearing that new policies would make it far more difficult to gain entry into the United States. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Migrants face new border reality as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire

By Valerie Gonzalez, Elliot Spagat and Giovanna Dell'Orto - Associated Press

Migrants wait in line adjacent to the border fence under the watch of the Texas National Guard to enter into El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday will begin denying asylum to migrants who show up at the U.S.-Mexico border without first applying online or seeking protection in a country they passed through, according to a new rule released Wednesday, as U.S. officials warned of difficult days ahead as a key limit on immigration is set to expire. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Migrants rush across U.S. border in final hours before expiration of Title 42

By Valerie Gonzalez - Associated Press

Gloria Chavez, Chief Patrol Agent, U.S. Border Patrol, RGV Sector, addresses the media at a press conference in Brownsville, Texas, Friday, May 5, 2023. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas listens, third from right. (AP Photo/Veronica G. Cardenas)

‘Risk it all’: Migrant surge as U.S. prepares for Title 42 end

By Rebecca Santana and Valerie Gonzalez - Associated Press

Makeshift tents and debris are seen at a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, Friday, April 21, 2023. About two dozen makeshift tents in the area were set ablaze and destroyed, across the border from Texas this week, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Valerie Gonzalez)

Mexico migrant camp tents torched across border from Texas

By Valerie Gonzalez - Associated Press

A member of the Mexican security forces stands next to a white minivan with North Carolina plates and several bullet holes, at the crime scene where gunmen kidnapped four U.S. citizens who crossed into Mexico from Texas, Friday, March 3, 2023. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the four Americans were going to buy medicine and were caught in the crossfire between two armed groups after they had entered Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, on Friday. (AP Photo)

Two kidnapped Americans found dead in Mexico; 2 others alive

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

An American woman, abducted in Mexico last week, sits inside an ambulance after she was found alive in Ejido Longoreno, on the outskirts of Matamoros, Mexico, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Two of four Americans whose abduction in Mexico was captured in a video that showed them caught in a cartel shootout have been found dead, officials said Tuesday. The two surviving Americans, one wounded, were taken to the border near Brownsville, Texas, in a convoy of Mexican ambulances and SUVs. (AP Photo)

Two Americans killed in cartel crossfire across Mexican border, raising fresh security fears

By David R. Sands and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

This Aug. 3, 2019, file photo shows an entrance welcoming travelers to Playa Bagdad near the border city of Matamoros, Mexico. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel) ** FILE **

Americans kidnapped in Mexico were there to buy medicine, possible cases of mistaken identity

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Police drive away after confrontations with what they claim were groups of criminals that left several in their ranks wounded, and more than a dozen persons detained, in Tupilejo, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) **FILE**

Biden urged to give Americans kidnapped in Mexico the same treatment as Brittney Griner

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A Mexican police officer stands on the back of a vehicle blocking access to the Rio Grande, so immigrants can't use it to cross the U.S.-Mexico border from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) ** FILE **

4 Americans kidnapped in northern Mexico, officials say

Associated Press

In this file photo, children, some carrying real weapons and others with fake ones, patrol their community aboard a pick-up truck as part of a display by community leaders to call the government's attention to their town's plight in Ayahualtempa, Guerrero state, Mexico, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) **FILE**

Raging gunbattles in northern Mexico city kill 4, wound 2

Associated Press

Asylum seekers wait for news of policy changes at the border, Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. After waiting months and sometimes years in Mexico, people seeking asylum in the United States are being allowed into the country starting Friday as they wait for courts to decide on their cases, unwinding one of the Trump administration's signature immigration policies that President Joe Biden vowed to end. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Asylum seekers rush to register for US border processing

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

A woman seeking asylum in the U.S and waiting in Mexico, is tested at a clinic in Matamoros, Mexico, Nov. 17, 2020. A humanitarian organization led by U.S. military veterans has treated thousands of migrants over the past year at two clinics in a Mexican town across the border from Texas. But Global Response Management is attempting to go beyond mere crisis response and build a system to make it easier to track the health of migrants along their journey from Central America. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Aid groups aim to bring health care to migrants on way to US

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

Mexico labor lawyer to be held pending trial on riot charges

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2019, file photo, migrants return to Mexico as other migrants line up on their way to request asylum in the U.S., at the foot of the Puerta Mexico bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, that crosses into Brownsville, Texas. A Trump administration program forcing asylum seekers to wait out the process in Mexico has evolved into a sweeping rejection of all forms of migrants, with both countries quietly working to keep people out of the U.S. despite threats to their safety. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel, File)

US, Mexico widen asylum crackdown to push back all migrants

By MARÍA VERZA and NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2018, file photo, Yenly Morales,left, and Yenly Herrera, right, immigrants from Cuba seeking asylum in the United States, wait on the Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico. The U.S. government will expand its policy requiring asylum seekers to wait outside the country in one of Mexico's most dangerous cities. According to officials for two congressional Democrats, the Department of Homeland Security says it will implement its &quot;Migrant Protection Protocols&quot; in Brownsville, Texas, across the border from Matamoros, Mexico. Matamoros is in Mexico's Tamaulipas state, which the U.S. government warns citizens not to visit due to violence and kidnappings.(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

US to send asylum seekers back to dangerous part of Mexico

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Tania Vanessa Avalos stands nearby as a government official speaks at a press conference at the airport, after her arrival in San Salvador, El Salvador, Friday, June 28, 2019. Avalos is the wife of the young man who drowned alongside his 23-month-old daughter while trying to cross the Rio Grande into Texas on Sunday, June 23. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Widow, mother of drowning victims returns to El Salvador

By MARCOS ALEMÁN - Associated Press

Rosa Ramirez sobs as she shows journalists toys that belonged to her nearly 2-year-old granddaughter Valeria in her home in San Martin, El Salvador, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. The drowned bodies of Ramirez's son, 25-year-old Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, and his daughter were located Monday morning on the banks of the Rio Grande, a day after the pair were swept away by the current when the young family tried to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. Her daughter-in-law Tania Vanessa Avalos, 21, survived. (AP Photo/Antonio Valladares)

Migrant: Young family ignored advice against border swim

By Christopher Sherman and Marcos Aleman - Associated Press

The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria lie on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Monday, June 24, 2019, after they drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. Martinez' wife, Tania told Mexican authorities she watched her husband and child disappear in the strong current. This photograph was first published in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada. (AP Photo/Julia Le Duc)

‘They died in each other’s arms,’ migrant’s mother says

By MARCOS ALEMÁN and PETER ORSI - Associated Press

This March 2, 2019, file photo shows a Customs and Border Control agent patrols on the U.S. side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along the Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) ** FILE **

Seven bodies found in five days on border in Texas

By Stephen Dinan and Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times