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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

A member of the Mexican security forces stands next to a white minivan with North Carolina plates and several bullet holes, at the crime scene where gunmen kidnapped four U.S. citizens who crossed into Mexico from Texas, Friday, March 3, 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)

Two kidnapped Americans found dead in Mexico; 2 others alive

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Police drive away after confrontations with what they claim were groups of criminals that left several in their ranks wounded, and more than a dozen persons detained, in Tupilejo, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) **FILE**

Biden urged to give Americans kidnapped in Mexico the same treatment as Brittney Griner

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

This Aug. 3, 2019, file photo shows an entrance welcoming travelers to Playa Bagdad near the border city of Matamoros, Mexico. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel) ** FILE **

Americans kidnapped in Mexico were there to buy medicine, possible cases of mistaken identity

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A Mexican police officer stands on the back of a vehicle blocking access to the Rio Grande, so immigrants can't use it to cross the U.S.-Mexico border from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) ** FILE **

4 Americans kidnapped in northern Mexico, officials say

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A family walks by a wall covered by a symbol from the Mara Salvatrucha, of MS-13 gang in Ilopango, El Salvador, on Aug. 21, 2014. In communities across El Salvador, the Mara Salvatrucha and their arch-rivals, the 18th Street Gang, are de facto rulers. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) **FILE**

MS-13’s smuggling operations in Mexico help gang members reach U.S.: DOJ

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A hippo swims in the Magdalena river in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Colombia's Environment Ministry announced in early Feb. that hippos are an invasive species, in response to a lawsuit against the government over whether to kill or sterilize the hippos that were imported illegally by the late drug lord Pablo Escobar, and whose numbers are growing at a fast pace and pose a threat to biodiversity. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Animal sanctuaries in Mexico, India set to take 70 Colombian hippos

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

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: Mexico has ‘more liberty and democracy’ than U.S.

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Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., speaks at a Republican campaign rally in West Miami, Fla., Oct. 19, 2022. More than half of the residents in the slice of Miami that includes Little Havana were born abroad. And when Salazar ran for reelection in 2022, she won by 15 percentage points. The GOP's dominance of Florida's 27th congressional district is emblematic of the party's inroads with Latino voters in recent years in much of the U.S. and especially in Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Latino Republicans push back on party’s immigration agenda

By Adriana Gomez Licon - Associated Press

Anti-government demonstrators shout slogans against Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, during a march against recent reforms to the country's electoral law that they say threaten democracy, in Mexico City's main square, The Zocalo, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Tens of thousands protest Mexico electoral reforms

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Mexican states in hot competition over possible Tesla plant

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

FILE - Mexico's, Genaro Garcia Luna speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Mexico City, on Sept. 3, 2009. The former Mexican presidential cabinet member was convicted in the U.S., Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, of taking massive bribes to protect the violent drug cartels he was tasked with combating. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Mexican president hopes ex security chief will turn informer

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building headquarters is seen in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Father charged with kidnapping daughter to force her into marriage in Yemen

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing in Washington, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Sen. Menendez questions Mexican commitment to fentanyl fight: ‘I just don’t see it’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

People work in a shoe maquiladora or factory in Leon, Mexico, Monday, Feb. 7, 2023. t has been nearly two years since the United States began pressing Mexico over labor rights violations, by using rapid dispute resolution methods (RRM) contained in the U.S.-Mexico Canada free trade agreement. (AP Photo/Mario Armas)

In Mexico, U.S. complaints help union organizing efforts

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

A police tape cordons off the crime scene in the church of Cerocahui, Mexico, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Two elderly Jesuit priests were killed inside the church, where a man pursued by gunmen apparently sought refuge, the religious order's Mexican branch announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) **FILE**

Cartels’ crime, kidnappings prompt State Dept. to tell Americans to avoid six Mexican states

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Dr. Rahul Gupta, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, is shown at the White House, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, in Washington. Gupta was one of the first witnesses whose video deposition was played at a bench trial Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in which several pharmaceutical manufacturers are accused in a lawsuit of contributing to the crisis. He testified that the opioid epidemic got so bad in drug-ravaged West Virginia that the state was having trouble finding foster parents to care of children. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Top White House drug-fighter sees progress on fentanyl overdoses, but warns of new threats

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This image shows rainbow-colored fentanyl pills. (DEA photo) ** FILE **

Republicans shout ‘border!’ when Biden talks tough on fentanyl

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A man works at an avocado orchard in Santa Ana Zirosto, Michoacan state, Mexico, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Armando Solis)

Route to Super Bowl dangerous for Mexico’s avocado haulers

By Armando Solis - Associated Press

Sami-ullah Safi holds photographs of his brother, Abdul Wasi Safi, as he talks about his brother's journey to the U.S. during an interview Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, in Houston. Safi's brother, who's called Wasi by his family, was an intelligence officer with the Afghan National Security Forces, providing U.S. armed forces with information for operations against terrorists, said Sami-ullah Safi. Wasi was arrested after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border near Eagle Pass, Texas in September 2022, and charged with a federal misdemeanor related to wrongly entering the country and placed in a detention center in Central Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Afghan soldier seeking U.S. asylum freed from federal custody

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press