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Dusk begins to fall at a section of border fence in Brownsville, Texas, on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. The Biden administration's plan to build new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border calls for a "movable" design that frustrates both environmentalists and advocates of stronger border enforcement. (AP Photo/Valerie Gonzalez)

Biden’s movable wall is criticized by environmentalists and those who want more border security

By Valerie Gonzalez - Associated Press

FILE - Supporters of presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of the Morena party, wait for his arrival at Mexico City's Zocalo plaza, July 1, 2018. Mexico’s ruling party will announce its candidates for the 2024 gubernatorial elections on Nov. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel, File)

Mexico’s governing party facing big test in trying to hold together without charismatic president

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A migrant holds a photo of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that reads in Spanish: "The lives of migrants also matter" as their caravan stops to block the highway in Huixtla, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. About 3,000 migrants, mostly from Central America, are protesting for the government to issue them temporary documents allowing them to continue north to the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar Clemente)

123 migrants found trapped in a trailer in central Mexico

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A billboard announcing the third Republican presidential debate in Miami is shown, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in downtown Miami. Five hopefuls will participate in the debate at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, according to the Republican National Committee. They are Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

5 Republican candidates spar at debate, while Trump holds a rally nearby. Follow live updates

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A migrant holds a photo of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that reads in Spanish: "The lives of migrants also matter" as their caravan stops to block the highway in Huixtla, Mexico, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. About 3,000 migrants, mostly from Central America, are protesting for the government to issue them temporary documents allowing them to continue north to the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Edgar Clemente)

Caravan of 3,000 migrants en route to U.S. blocks highway in Mexico

By Edgar H. Clemente - Associated Press

A group of people, including many from China, walk along the wall after crossing the border with Mexico to seek asylum, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, near Jacumba, Calif. A major influx of Chinese migration to the United States on a relatively new and perilous route through Panama's Darién Gap jungle has become increasingly popular thanks to social media. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Takeaways from AP’s reporting on Chinese migrants who traverse the Darien Gap to reach the U.S.

By Elliot Spagat and Didi Tang - Associated Press

Acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection Troy Miller, center, speaks during a news conference at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, in San Diego. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced a new government-wide strategy that will target not only fentanyl but precursor materials used to make the synthetic opioid.(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

U.S. government says it plans to go after legal goods tied to illegal fentanyl trade in new strategy

By Julie Watson - Associated Press

Trucks sit idle on a highway blocked by a landslide triggered by Hurricane Otis near Acapulco, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexican authorities report 27 people killed by Hurricane Otis

By Mark Stevenson and María Verza - Associated Press

This satellite image provided by NOAA on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, shows Hurricane Otis approaching Mexico's Pacific coast near Acapulco. Otis is forecast to make landfall early Wednesday and there is a hurricane warning in effect from Punta Maldonado to Zihuatanejo. (NOAA via AP)

Hurricane Otis weakens to Category 4 storm while heavy rains and flash floods batter southern Mexico

By José Antonio Rivera and María Verza - Associated Press

Birds rest on concertina wire along the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass,Texas, July 6, 2023. Texas sued the Biden administration Tuesday, Oct. 24, seeking to stop federal agents from cutting the state's razor wire that has gashed or snagged migrants as they have attempted to enter the U.S. from Mexico at the Rio Grande. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas sues Biden administration, seeking to stop federal agents from cutting razor wire on border

By Valerie Gonzalez - Associated Press

Employees cover the windows of a souvenirs store with wood in preparation for the arrival of the hurricane Norma, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Hurricane Norma is heading for the resorts of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, while Tammy grew into a hurricane in the Atlantic. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Hurricane Norma takes aim at Mexico’s Los Cabos resorts, as Tammy threatens islands in the Atlantic

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Border Patrol Deputy Chief for the Tucson Sector Justin De La Torre walks along the border fence of the U.S.-Mexico border, on Aug. 29, 2023, in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Lukeville, Ariz. Most people in the U.S. see Mexico as an essential partner to stop drug trafficking and illegal border crossings, even as they express mixed views of Mexico's government, according to a new poll.(AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Most in the U.S. see Mexico as a partner despite border problems, an AP-NORC/Pearson poll shows

By Adriana Gomez Licon and Linley Sanders - Associated Press

Police and military patrol Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Jan. 6, 2023, the day after the government detained Ovidio Guzman, the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, which unleashed deadly firefights between the military and suspected members of the Sinaloa drug cartel. With Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán serving a life sentence, his sons steered the family business into fentanyl, establishing a network of labs churning out massive quantities they smuggled into the U.S., prosecutors in the U.S. revealed in an indictment unsealed April 14, 2023, in Manhattan. (AP Photo/Martin Urista) ** FILE **

Mexican cartel signals it wants out of the fentanyl business

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A billboard of slain Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio reads in Spanish, "Colosio lives in Mexico's Transformation" in Mexico City, March 23, 2014, on the 20th anniversary of his death. Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Oct. 12, 2023 that Colosio's assassination was a government-sponsored killing. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico’s president calls 1994 assassination of presidential candidate a ‘state crime’

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A migrant family from Honduras climbs a border fence to jump inside the United States to San Diego, from Tijuana, talk with a border patrol police officer in Mexico, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018. The family entered the custody of the patrol after jumping down from the fence. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves into border patrol agents. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

2 Guatemalan migrants shot dead in Mexico near U.S. border; Mexican soldiers believed to be involved

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Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. The Biden administration is expected to keep the cap on refugees admitted into the country at 125,000 for the next fiscal year, which starts Sunday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Mexico’s president says he has rejected U.S.-funded migrant transit centers

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Youths wear protective glasses to watch a hybrid solar eclipse in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, April 20, 2023. On Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse _ better known as a ring of fire _ will briefly dim the skies over parts of the western U.S. and Central and South America. Proper protection is needed throughout the eclipse, from the initial partial phase to the ring of fire to the final partial phase. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)

‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse to slice across Americas on Saturday

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks about the September jobs report in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in Washington. The U.S.-Mexico border and immigration are creating political and security challenges for President Joe Biden. Even some of his top allies worry about those issues' effects on his reelection chances. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden faces more criticism about the border, one of his biggest problems heading into 2024

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks in New York's Times Square during a news conference, Dec. 30, 2022. On Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, Adams said he will travel to Latin America to discourage people from seeking asylum in the city as it struggles to handle a massive influx of migrants that have overwhelmed its shelter system and strained financial resources. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

NYC mayor headed to Latin America with message for asylum seekers: ‘We are at capacity’

By Anthony Izaguirre - Associated Press

Police and military patrol Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Jan. 6, 2023, the day after the government detained Ovidio Guzman, the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, which unleashed deadly firefights between the military and suspected members of the Sinaloa drug cartel. With Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán serving a life sentence, his sons steered the family business into fentanyl, establishing a network of labs churning out massive quantities they smuggled into the U.S., prosecutors in the U.S. revealed in an indictment unsealed April 14, 2023, in Manhattan. (AP Photo/Martin Urista) ** FILE **

Banners purportedly from Sinaloa cartel say gang has sworn off sales of fentanyl

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