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A migrant woman waits between two border walls hoping to apply for asylum, a day after the Title 42 cutoff, as seen from San Diego, May 12, 2023. Mexico is flying migrants south away from the U.S. border to keep migrants from massing in its border cities. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Mexico moving migrants away from borders to relieve pressure

By Maria Verza and Edgar H. Clemente - Associated Press

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., accompanied by House Republicans, speaks during a news conference on their investigation into the Biden family on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

House probe: More foreign deals suggest Biden was planning a well-heeled retirement, says Comer

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves addresses supporters at a campaign rally at Stribling Equipment in Richland, Miss., Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Reeves is seeking reelection to a second term. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi sends National Guard to U.S.-Mexico border, GOP governor says

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Venezuelan migrants rest inside their tents on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Sunday, May 14, 2023. As the U.S. ended its pandemic-era immigration restrictions, migrants are adapting to new asylum rules and legal pathways meant to discourage illegal crossings. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Border crossings are off from last week’s highs as U.S. pins hopes for order on mobile app

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

A Venezuelan migrant walks past garbage burning on a bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Friday, May 12, 2023, a day after pandemic-related asylum restrictions called Title 42 were lifted. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Chaos on Mexico border averted, for now, as U.S. turns page in migration rules

By Valerie Gonzalez, Elliot Spagat and Giovanna Dell'orto - 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

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

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

Migrants cross the Rio Bravo into the United States from Matamoros, Mexico, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. The U.S. is preparing for the Thursday, May 11th end of the Title 42 policy, linked to the coronavirus pandemic that allowed it to quickly expel many migrants seeking asylum. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

U.S. to limit asylum at Mexico border, open 100 migration hubs as COVID-19 restrictions end

By Maria Verza and Colleen Long and Morgan Lee - Associated Press

Oriana Serra lines up with other migrantes to take a boat to Lajas Blancas after walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S. in Bajo Chiquito, Panama Sunday, May 7, 2023. Back in Panama, as 34-year-old Oriana Serra neared the end of her Darien crossing with her two teen children, several men with pistols blocked their path, stealing the last of their money. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Migrants flow north to U.S. border ahead of policy changes

By Kathia Martínez - Associated Press

Migrants hold flowers and listen to speakers during a vigil for the eight migrants that were killed and several others that were injured the day before while waiting at a bus stop, in Brownsville, Texas, Monday, May 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Gonzalez)

Days after Texas bus stop crash, little info on the victims

By Valerie Gonzalez - Associated Press

The Treasury Building is viewed in Washington, May 4, 2021. The Treasury Department designated El Chapo's son Joaquin Guzman Lopez and others for financial sanctions, including a freeze on American-owned assets and bank accounts and a ban on Americans doing business with them. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

El Chapo’s son, Sinaloa members face sanctions over fentanyl

By Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

Ukrainian refugees wait near the U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico, April 4, 2022. A month after Russia invaded Ukraine, refugees started showing up to the U.S.-Mexico border. Roughly 1,000 Ukrainians a day flew to Tijuana on tourist visas, desperate to get into the country. The volume was overwhelming the nation’s busiest border crossing in San Diego. Just over the border in Tijuana Mexico, thousands of Ukrainians slept in a municipal gym hoping to for a chance to get across. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

How those fleeing Ukraine inspired U.S. border policies

By Colleen Long and Elliot Spagat - 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

U.S. President Joe Biden walks with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, at his arrival to the Felipe Angeles international airport in Zumpango, Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mexican president to hold call with Biden on immigration

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In this Nov. 16, 2018, file photo, an immigrant who entered the United States illegally is checked before boarding a deportation flight to El Salvador by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Man accused of killing North Carolina sheriff’s deputy is recaptured after escaping Virginia jail

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

U.S. Border Patrol agents patrol the Rio Grande River in boats in Mission, Texas, Thursday, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Veronica G. Cardenas) **FILE**

New border surge has already begun

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Nogales Port of Entry is shown during a press conference, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP) ** FILE **

Fentanyl at the border: Americans ready for troops, trade restrictions with Mexico

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during his regularly scheduled morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Feb. 28, 2023. Lopez Obrador has again complained to the United States that the U.S. government is funding organizations opposed to his administration, this time in a letter dated Tuesday, May, 2, 2023, to President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexican president complains that U.S. government is funding opposition

Associated Press

This frame grab from video, provided by the Mexican government, shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez being detained in Culiacan, Mexico, on Oct. 17, 2019. Ovidio's brothers, Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and Jesus Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, are the lead defendants among 23 associates charged with running a criminal enterprise, fentanyl trafficking, among other things, in a New York indictment unsealed on April 14, 2023, in Manhattan, while Ovidio, alias “the Mouse,” is facing similar charges in another indictment in the same district. Another brother, Joaquín Guzmán López, is charged in the Northern District of Illinois. (CEPROPIE via AP) **FILE**

‘El Chapo’ sons send Mexico cartel’s cheap fentanyl into U.S.

By Christopher Sherman and Mark Stevenson - Associated Press