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Mexico: Migrants lit mattresses in protest; fire killed 39

By Maria Verza - Associated Press

In this July 8, 2017 file photo, a woman with the World Wildlife Fund carries a paper mache replica of the critically endangered porpoise known as the "vaquita marina" during an event in front of the National Palace calling on the government to take additional steps to protect the world's smallest marine mammal, in Mexico City. The international wildlife body CITES called Monday, March 27, 2023 on member countries to stop trade with Mexico for products linked to sensitive species, such as orchids, cactuses and skins from crocodiles and snakes. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Group bans some trade with Mexico over endangered porpoise

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Illustration on China's role in the fentanyl crisis by Linas Garsys/ The Washington Times

China’s role in America’s fentanyl crisis

By David L. Phillips

Japan players celebrate after defeating the United States in the World Baseball Classic championship game, Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

World Baseball Classic keeps growing despite injury risks

By Ronald Blum - Associated Press

Illustration on border security and Mexican cartels by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

‘All of the above’ approach needed to defeat Mexican drug cartels

By Chad Wolf and Robert Law

Mexico left fielder Randy Arozarena catches a ball hit by Japan's Kensuke Kondoh during the fifth inning of a World Baseball Classic game, Monday, March 20, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Mexico considers World Baseball Classic a win despite loss

By Ronald Blum - Associated Press

This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office for Utah and introduced as evidence at a trial shows fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills collected during an investigation. (U.S. Attorneys Office for Utah via AP, File)

U.S. warns about fake, dangerous pills being sold in Mexico

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas listens to Raul Ortiz, Chief, U.S. Border Patrol, as he tours the section of the border wall with Mexico, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in La Joya, Texas. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP, Pool)

Border Patrol chief pleads for more agents, disagrees with Biden halting border wall construction

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Defeat the Mexican Cartels Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Legislators must follow through to defeat Mexican drug cartels

By Jeremy C. Hunt

United States pitcher Nick Martinez, left, exits during the third inning of a World Baseball Classic game against Mexico in Phoenix, Sunday, March 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez) **FILE**

Pitching rules, directives tie WBC managers’ hands

By David Brandt - Associated Press

Mexican Natioanla Guard prepare a search mission for four U.S. citizens kidnapped by gunmen at Matamoros, Mexico, Monday, March 6, 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)

Bickering on violence divides U.S. and Mexico, adds new strain to tension between neighbors

By David R. Sands and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Nashville SC defender Walker Zimmerman, left, celebrates his goal against New York City FC during the first half of an MLS soccer match Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

U.S. to play Mexico in April 19 exhibition without top players

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Cars line up at the Paso del Norte international bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, below, on the border with El Paso, Texas, top, Nov. 8, 2021. A large group of migrants in Mexico who were poised to barge into the U.S. over the weekend were blocked from crossing the bridge, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said. The migrants were “posing a potential threat to make a mass entry,” and physical barriers were put up to restrict their entry on Sunday afternoon, spokesperson Roger Maier said in a statement to The Associated Press on Monday, March 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, file)

Agents stop crowd at Texas border crossing amid asylum woes

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his regularly scheduled morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Feb. 28, 2023. Mexico’s president claimed Monday, March 13, 2023 that his country is safer than the United States. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico safer than the United States says Lopez Obrador

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In these undated photos provided by the Penitas Police Department, from left are sisters Maritza Rios, 47, and Marina Rios, 48, and their friend, Dora Saenz, 53. On Friday, March 10, 2023, authorities said the three women haven't been heard from since traveling from Texas into Mexico on Feb. 24 to sell clothes at a flea market. (Courtesy of Penitas Police Department via AP)

3 women missing in Mexico after crossing from Texas

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A Mexican army soldier guards the Tamaulipas State Prosecutor's headquarters in Matamoros, Mexico, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery veered violently off course when four Americans were caught in a drug cartel shootout, leaving two dead and two held captive for days in a remote region of the Gulf coast before they were rescued from a wood shack, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo)

Letter claims Mexican cartel turned in men who killed two Americans

By Alfredo Pena and Mark Stevenson and James Pollard - Associated Press

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his regularly scheduled morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexican president to U.S.: Fentanyl is your problem

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

A truck burns on a street in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Mexican security forces captured Ovidio Guzmán, an alleged drug trafficker wanted by the United States and one of the sons of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, in a pre-dawn operation Thursday that set off gunfights and roadblocks across the western state’s capital. (AP Photo/Martin Urista) **FILE**

Senator wants to send military to Mexico, declare war on cartels after Americans’ deaths

By Joseph Clark and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Red Cross worker closes the door of an ambulance carrying two Americans found alive after their abduction in Mexico last week, in Matamoros, 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 were taken to the border near Brownsville, Texas, in a convoy of Mexican ambulances and SUVs. (AP Photo)

Calls for use of military force to take down Mexican drug cartels emerges in Washington

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden delivers remarks to the 2023 International Association of Fire Fighters Legislative Conference, Monday, March 6, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In reversal, Joe Biden weighs detaining migrant families

By Colleen Long and Elliot Spagat - Associated Press