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FILE - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference, March 10, 2022, in Weslaco, Texas. Former Trump administration officials are pressing Abbott to declare an &quot;invasion&quot; along the U.S.-Mexico border as justification to give thousands of state troopers and National Guard members sweeping new powers to turn back migrants. Abbott says he will he announce Wednesday, April 6, 2022, &quot;unprecedented actions&quot; to deter migrants coming to Texas but did not elaborate. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP, File)

Ex-Trump officials urge Texas to declare border ‘invasion’

By Acacia Coronado and Paul J. Weber - Associated Press

A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by Customs and Border Protection officers is shown during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. A Mexican national was sentenced Friday to nine years in federal prison for trafficking the largest amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl seized by U.S. authorities in 2021 and 2022. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)

States look for solutions as U.S. fentanyl deaths keep rising

By Geoff Mulvihill - Associated Press

Volunteer Silas Breen, below left, from the Calvary Bible Institute, prays with David, from Ukraine, at San Diego Calvary's shelter for Ukrainians arriving after crossing into the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, April 1, 2022, in Chula Vista, Calif. As U.S. refugee resettlement agencies and nonprofits nationwide gear up to help Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion and war that has raged for nearly six weeks, members of faith communities have been leading the charge to welcome the displaced. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Across US, faith groups mobilize to aid Ukrainian refugees

By Deepa Bharath and Luis Andres Henao - Associated Press

Migrant break through a line of National Guards trying to block them from leaving Tapachula, Mexico, Friday, April 1, 2022. Migrants have complained they have been essentially confined to Tapachula by the slow processing of their asylum cases and that they are unable to find work. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)

Migrants march from southern Mexico as Biden lifts COVID ban

By Edgar H. Clemente - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks about the March jobs report in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, April 1, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

COVID-19 asylum limits at U.S.-Mexico border to end May 23

By Colleen Long and Zeke Miller - Associated Press

Migrants rest in a dormitory of the Good Samaritan shelter in Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. The vast majority of people staying at the shelter are women and their children from Mexico and Central America who have been expelled under Title 42 authority or were still waiting to try for asylum, according to Pastor Juan Fierro, the shelter’s director. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Migrants hopeful, suspicious at U.S. reopening to asylum

By Giovanna Dell'orto - Associated Press

In this file photo, a group of migrant families walk from the Rio Grande, the river separating the U.S. and Mexico in Texas, near McAllen, Texas, March 14, 2019. The number of illegal immigrants nabbed at the southern border rose in February 2022 as single adult Mexicans poured into the country at their highest rate in years, according to new Homeland Security data released Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) **FILE**

Biden’s border crisis worsens in February

By Tommy Hicks Jr.

Migrants, many from Haiti, are seen at an encampment along the Del Rio International Bridge near the Rio Grande, Sept. 21, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. About 15,000 mostly Haitian refugees were camped under the bridge in the small border town. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) ** FILE **

Documents show FAA ruled border drone ban illegal, then reversed the decision after DHS call

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

An older section of the border wall divides Ciudad Juarez, Mexico from Sunland Park, New Mexico, top, on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. President Biden's new budget would take $2 billion in unspent border wall money and allow it to be spent instead on building roads or cutting down brush along the U.S.-Mexico boundary. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

DHS fumbles restart of Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The U.S Supreme Court building is seen at dusk in Washington on Oct. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Supreme Court to hear case over Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A worker selects avocados at a packing plant in Uruapan, Mexico, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Mexico has acknowledged that the U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat. (AP Photo/Armando Solis)

Experts see avocado price rise, damage to Mexican producers

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

Soldiers patrol near the hamlet Plaza Vieja in the Michoacan state of Mexico, Oct. 28, 2021. The self-defense movement in the nearby town of Tepalcatepec, said improvised land mines severely damaged an army armored car on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. In the war raging between drug cartels in western Mexico, gangs have begun using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on roads to disable army vehicles. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Drug cartels surge amid Biden’s border shifts and falling cooperation with Mexico

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Recently harvested avocados at an orchard near Ziracuaretiro, Michoacan state, Mexico, Oct. 1, 2019. Mexico has acknowledged late Saturday, Feb. 13, 20222, that the U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexican president sees U.S. conspiracy behind avocado ban

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

Recently harvested avocados at an orchard near Ziracuaretiro, Michoacan state, Mexico, Oct. 1, 2019. Mexico has acknowledged late Saturday, Feb. 13, 20222, that the U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

U.S. suspends Mexican avocado imports on eve of Super Bowl

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

Police car. Photo credit: zef art via Shutterstock. ** FILE **

FBI Most Wanted fugitive found in Mexico

By Peter Santo - The Washington Times

In this June 10, 2021, photo, a pair of migrant families from Brazil passes through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia) **FILE**

DHS encountered a record 2 million illegal immigrants on southern border in 2021

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexican president announces he has COVID-19 for second time

Associated Press

Migrants walk near a gate on the U.S.-Mexico border wall after they were spotted by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent and taken into custody while trying to cross, Sunday, March 21, 2021, in Abram-Perezville, Texas. The fate of thousands of migrant families who have recently arrived at the Mexico border is being decided by a mysterious new system under President Joe Biden. U.S. authorities are releasing migrants with “acute vulnerabilities” and allowing them to pursue asylum. But it’s not clear why some are considered vulnerable and not others. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) **FILE**

DHS to plug gaps Biden left in Trump’s border wall

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A line of Texas Department of Safety vehicles line up on the Texas side of the Rio Grande with Mexico visible, right, near an encampment of migrants, many from Haiti, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Court won’t allow reversal of Trump remain-in-Mexico policy

By Kevin McGill - Associated Press

Vicente Fernandez performs at the 20th Latin Grammy Awards on Nov. 14, 2019, in Las Vegas. The Mexican singer died early Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021, relatives reported. He was 81 years old. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Vicente Fernandez, revered Mexican singer, dies at 81

By Berenice Bautista - Associated Press