Mcallen, Texas

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The toes of a baby peek out of a blanket at a hospital in McAllen, Texas. On Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the increase of U.S. infant mortality rate to 3% in 2022 — a rare increase in a death statistic that has been generally been falling for decades. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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In this file photo, a group of migrant families walk from the Rio Grande, the river separating the U.S. and Mexico in Texas, near McAllen, Texas, on March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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Demonstrators gather outside the Whole Women's Health clinic Friday, June 24,2022 in McAllen, Texas. The one clinic that provides abortion services in the Rio Grande Valley ceased providing abortions on Friday following the Supreme Court ruling overturning abortion. (Delcia Lopez/The Monitor via AP)

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In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, photo, a Border Patrol agent apprehends a person suspected of having entered the U.S. illegally near McAllen, Texas. While many adults crossing the border on their own in South Texas try to flee agents, most migrant parents and children wait to surrender so they can be processed and released into the United States. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, photo, a Border Patrol agent talks with a group suspected of having entered the U.S. illegally near McAllen, Texas. While many adults crossing the border on their own in South Texas try to flee agents, most migrant parents and children wait to surrender so they can be processed and released into the United States. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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A mother migrating from Honduras holds her 1-year-old child as surrendering to U.S. Border Patrol agents after illegally crossing the border Monday, June 25, 2018, near McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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A mother migrating from Honduras holds her 1-year-old child as surrendering to U.S. Border Patrol agents after illegally crossing the border Monday, June 25, 2018, near McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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In this April 28, 2017 photo, Aimee Gomez, a recruiter for "maquiladora" assembly plants in Reynosa, Mexico helps Juan Luis Alvarado de la Rosa fill out a job application in an industrial park, across the border from McAllen, Texas. President Donald Trump has said NAFTA was "a catastrophic trade deal for the United States," but the reality is far more complicated, especially at the border where communities are enmeshed in a shared economy. (AP Photo/Christopher Sherman)

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This April 28, 2017 photo shows a sign that says "We're hiring" outside a Panasonic "maquiladora" in an industrial park in Reynosa, Mexico, across the border from McAllen, Texas. A long-time factory worker said he worried that if maquila jobs decrease, the unemployed would fill the ranks of a drug cartels that control Mexican border towns. (AP Photo/Christopher Sherman)

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In this April 26, 2017 photo, Jesus Guadalupe Morones Solis checks his phone from home after work as a recruiter for "maquiladoras," as Mexican assembly plants are known, in Reynosa, Mexico, across the border from McAllen, Texas. U.S. President Donald Trump has said the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the basis for much of the $500 billion annual trade between the U.S. and Mexico, needs to be renegotiated or scrapped entirely. (AP Photo/Alexis Triboulard)

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In this April 28, 2017 photo, shoppers fill a downtown pedestrian street in Reynosa, Mexico, across the border from McAllen, Texas. U.S. border retailers _ downtown discount stores and high-end outlet shopping and malls _ depend on Mexican shoppers, especially those whose jobs in Mexican border cities allow them to shop in the U.S. (AP Photo/Alexis Triboulard)

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In this April 27, 2017 photo, truck driver Jose Luis Mayorga herds calves onto a truck in Reynosa, Mexico, across the border from McAllen, Texas. Rancher Gildardo Lopez Hinojosa, who sent about 400 of his calves across the border to Pharr, Texas, said he gets the best price for his calves in the U.S. and it's cheaper for him to import U.S. chicken than ship Mexican chicken from the country's interior. (AP Photo/Christopher Sherman)

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In this Wednesday, March 22, 2017 photo, Jose Gonzalez speaks about his journey from El Salvador to the United States while his two children, Nicole and Pedro, play at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen, Texas. The numbers of people traveling north have fallen dramatically, according to federal officials and shelters along the Texas-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Nomaan Merchant)

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Protesters of President Donald Trump's immigration policies chant across the street from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection station Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in McAllen, Texas. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP)

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An U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agent peers out of the open door of a helicopter during a patrol flight over McAllen, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border. (Associated Press)