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Bodies in bodybags are placed on the side of the road after an accident in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas state, Mexico, Dec. 9, 2021. Mexican authorities say at least 49 people were killed and dozens more injured when a cargo truck carrying Central American migrants rolled over on a highway in southern Mexico. (AP Photo )

Truck crash kills dozens of migrant en route to U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - A woman seeking asylum in the United States waits with others for news of policy changes on Feb. 19, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. The Biden administration is set to reinstate a Trump-era policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court this week with changes and additions. A U.S. official says the first migrants are to be sent from El Paso, Texas, back to Ciudad Juarez. Timing was in flux as officials made final preparations but it may begin Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

What is the revived US policy on Mexico border?

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

FILE - Migrants leave Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, Oct. 27, 2021, as they continue their trek north toward Mexico's northern states and the U.S. border. The Biden administration struck agreement with Mexico to reinstate a Trump-era border policy next week that forces asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, U.S. officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, file)

US will resume policy for asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Migrants arrive in Villa Comaltitlan, Chiapas state, Mexico, on Oct. 27, 2021, as they continue their journey through Mexico to the U.S. border. Three Republican-led states filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to stop President Biden from ending the pandemic border-emergency order that had helped block illegal immigrants' path into the U.S., saying he moved too rashly. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

DHS to restart Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy after Mexico agrees to conditions

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this March 2, 2019, file photo, a Customs and Border Control agent patrols on the U.S. side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Biden’s new COVID-19 travel ban ignores southern border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden waves towards the White House balcony as he leaves the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021 in Washington, to visit General Motors' electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Differences endure as Biden brings back North America summit

By Aamer Mahdani and Rob Gillies and Maria Verza - Associated Press

President Joe Biden, center, walks with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, left, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, to a meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. Expanding the U.S.-Canada-Mexico economic relationship in the face of a looming global recession is a central focus of President Biden's meeting Monday, Jan. 9 with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts — a summit of three leaders overseeing the world's single most powerful free trade alliance. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

‘Strongly united’: Biden, Canadian, Mexican leaders focus on economy in first summit since 2016

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador greets supporters as he departs to United Nations on Tuesday, Nov 9, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez) ** FILE **

Biden so weak even Mexico now threatening America

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this file photo, then-President Donald Trump, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, left, participate in the USMCA signing ceremony, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The future of the USCMA will be among the topics discussed when President Biden meets with the leaders of Mexico and Canada on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

USMCA looms over Biden summit with leaders from Mexico, Canada

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

R. Glenn Williamson, Canada's Arizona honorary consul and founder and CEO of the Canada Arizona Business Council, soaks up the morning sun at the Arizona Biltmore resort Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in Phoenix. Williamson says he's looking forward to the return of Canadian snowbirds to the state now that vaccinated people from other countries can enter the U.S. by land starting Nov. 8. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Canadian snowbirds primed to flock south as US opens border

By Anita Snow and Terry Tang - Associated Press

A youth stands by the border fence that separates Mexico from the United States, where candles and crosses stand in memory of migrants who have died during their journey toward the U.S., in Tijuana, Mexico, late Saturday, June 29, 2019. On the border fence at right hangs a cartoon depiction of a news photograph of the bodies of Salvadoran migrant Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria, photographed on the banks of the Rio Grande between Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas, after they drowned on Sunday, June 23. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Border deaths soar as 2021 sets record for most migrant fatalities

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 29, 2019, photo, migrant Carlos Catarldo Gomez, of Honduras, center, is escorted by Mexican officials after leaving the U.S., the first person returned to Mexico to wait for his asylum trial date as part of a new program "Remain In Mexico" policy in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

DHS issues memo to cancel ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants who are part of caravan cross a railroad track in Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, on a day of rest before continuing their trek across southern Mexico to the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Biden’s team sends mixed messages to migrant caravan

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants who are part of caravan cross a railroad track in Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, on a day of rest before continuing their trek across southern Mexico to the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Activists complain of COVID-19 spread from illegal immigrants pushed back across border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A caravan of migrants, mostly from Central America, heading north, stop to rest in the Alvaro Obregon community, Tapachula municipality, Chiapas state, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Over 2,000 migrants march out of southern city in Mexico

By Edgar H. Clemente - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept 9, 2021, file photo, pedestrians walk near a poster asking for the freedom of Colombian businessman and Venezuelan special envoy Alex Saab, in Caracas, Venezuela. Saab, a top fugitive close to Venezuela's socialist government has been put on a plane to the U.S. to face money laundering charges, a senior U.S. official confirmed Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Maduro ally extradited to US on money laundering charges

By Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

A massive IPSOS poll conducted of 19,570 adults in 28 countries found that on average, only 10% of the global respondents felt that politicians were “trustworthy.”(Image courtesy of NASA)

Worldwide survey has politicians as least-trusted profession

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, March 18, 2020, file photo, truck traffic from Canada waits to cross the border into the United States in Derby Line Vt. The U.S. will reopen its land borders to nonessential travel next month, ending a 19-month freeze due to the COVID-19 pandemic as the country moves to require all international visitors to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The new rules, to be announced Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, will allow fully vaccinated foreign nationals to enter the U.S. regardless of the reason for travel (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, File)

U.S. to reopen land borders in November for fully vaccinated

By Zeke Miller - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks outside the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, during an event announcing that his administration is restoring protections for two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that recently has been used for commercial fishing. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

GOP lawmakers challenge Biden’s ‘obsession’ with ending Trump border crackdown

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Customs and Border Patrol agent detains a migrant atop Montezuma's Pass in Coronado National Memorial, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Hereford, Ariz. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique desert and mountain landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Catch-and-release at border up more than 430,000% in August

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times