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The head of Mexico's National Migration Institute, Francisco Garduño, front, arrives at court in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Sunday, April 30, 2023. Garduño is part of an investigation into a fire at a detention center in March that killed 40 migrants and is accused of failing in his responsibility to protect migrants. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Mexico immigration agency head to stand trial in deadly fire

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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

A Mexico fan cheers during the fourth inning of a World Baseball Classic game between Japan and Mexico, Monday, March 20, 2023, in Miami. Major League Baseball is heading south of the border again to play a regular season series. After previous stops in Monterrey, Mexico City will be the host this time, and the timing seems perfect.(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

WBC fuels ‘unprecedented’ hunger for baseball in Mexico

By Carlos Rodriguez - Associated Press

Federal officers remove handcuffs from men before releasing them through a gate in a border wall to Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in San Diego. Some asylum-seekers who crossed the border from Mexico are waiting 10 years just for a court date. The Border Patrol released people with notices to appear at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. The move saved the Border Patrol untold hours processing court papers, but it left the job to an agency that had no extra staff for the increased workload. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Immigrants waiting 10 years in U.S. just to get a court date

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Mexican National Immigration Institute Chief Francisco Garduño speaks to the press as he arrives to court in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday, April 21, 2023. Garduño is part of an investigation of a fire at a detention center in March that killed 40 migrants and is accused of failing in his responsibility to protect migrants. At right is a lawyer. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Mexico immigration agency head arraigned in deadly fire

By María Verza - Associated Press

Migrants start walking north from Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, Sunday, April 23, 2023. Migrants stuck in southern Mexico and angry about 40 of their own who died in a fire at a detention facility last month, began walking toward Mexico City. (AP Photo/Edgar Hernandez Clemente)

3,000 migrants begin walk north from southern Mexico

By Edgar H. Clemente - 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

Members of Mexico's National Guard march in the Independence Day military parade, in the capital's main plaza, the Zocalo, in Mexico City, Sept. 16, 2019. Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled April 18, 2023 that the 2022 transfer of the newly created National Guard from civilian to military control was unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexican president still vows to give National Guard to Army

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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gives his daily morning press conference following a two-week absence after he tested positive for coronavirus, at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico’s president slams U.S. ‘spying’ after Sinaloa cartel traffickers charged

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People attend a news conference on Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, Tuesday, April 11, 2023, near Boulder City, Nev. The Biden administration on Tuesday released an environmental analysis of competing plans for how Western states and tribes reliant on the dwindling Colorado River should cut their use. (AP Photo/John Locher)

What might Colorado River cuts mean for states and the 40 million people it supplies with water?

By Suman Naishadham - Associated Press

Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio is interviewed by The Associated Press on Friday, April 22, 2022, in Washington. Cuba plans to resume accepting deportation flights from the United States this month, a Cuban official said, echoing U.S. concerns about the highest levels of Cuban migration in six decades. Fernandez de Cossio said flights are expected before the U.S. ends coronavirus pandemic-related restrictions on asylum on May 11, which is widely projected to increase the number of people seeking entry to the U.S. at the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Cuba expects to resume U.S. deportation flights this month

By Rebecca Santana and Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Mexico City Capitanes fans get revved as they wait for the start of an NBA G-League basketball game against the Windy City Bulls, in Mexico City, Sunday, March 12, 2023. The early success of the G League team in Mexico City has fans hoping of one day Mexico can be the home of an NBA expansion team. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

NBA in Mexico: G League team hopes it’s laying foundation

By Carlos Rodriguez - Associated Press

A homeless addict holds pieces of fentanyl in Los Angeles, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ** FILE **

China denies fentanyl trafficking with Mexico; blames U.S.

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President Donald Trump, right, and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gesture before signing a joint declaration at the White House in Washington, July 8, 2020. Mexico’s president said on April 5, 2023 that he opposes the criminal charges filed against Trump, suggesting they were brought for political reasons during an electoral campaign. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Mexico’s president opposes charges against Trump: ‘Don’t make up crimes to affect adversaries’

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at the National Palace in Mexico City, Jan. 10, 2023. Lopez Obrador asked his Chinese counterpart for help Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in halting chemicals from China used by Mexican drug dealers to illegally produce fentanyl. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) **FILE**

Mexico complains to China about U.S. pressure over fentanyl

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No totalization agreement with Mexico

Books on abortion issues sit at the Marea Verde Chihuahua, an organization that supports reproductive rights, in Chihuahua, Mexico, Monday, March 13, 2023. To safely advise women on self-managed medical abortions, members of Marea Verde Chihuahua were trained to become “acompañantes” -- capable of serving as a guide and partner, whether in person or from long distance. (AP Photo/Adriana Esquivel)

Activists’ network in Mexico helps U.S. women get abortions

By Maria Teresa Hernandez - Associated Press

Ecuadorian migrant Klever Ortega, left, and his wife, Cristina Lema, prepare breakfast for their family, Saturday, March. 3, 2023, in Spring Valley, N.Y. Ecuador — long known for remarkably low rates of crime, despite sitting in South America's cocaine heartland — has been struggling economically, fighting higher violence and losing its people in record numbers. Like Ortega and Lema, many are headed to the U.S. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

More Ecuadorians move to U.S., spared many others’ hurdles

By Michael Weissenstein and Gonzalo Solano - Associated Press

An altar with candles and photos covers the fence outside the Mexican immigration detention center that was the site of a deadly fire, as migrants wake up after spending the night on the sidewalk in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, March 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Mexico president assigns blame elsewhere for migrant tragedy

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A woman tapes a bouquet of flowers to the picket of a gate that has been converted into a makeshift memorial, in front of a Mexican immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 28, 2023, where a fire in a dormitory left dozens of migrants dead. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by migrants in protest after learning they would be deported. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

38 dead in Mexico fire after guards didn’t let migrants out

By Fabiola Sanchez and Morgan Lee - Associated Press