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FILE - In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young unaccompanied migrants, from ages 3 to 9, watch television inside a playpen at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas. For the third time in seven years, U.S. officials are scrambling to handle a dramatic spike in children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border alone, leading to a massive expansion in emergency facilities to house them as more kids arrive than are being released to close relatives in the United States. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)

New migrant facilities crop up to ease crowding, again

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2020 file photo, Honduran migrants hoping to reach the U.S. border are stopped by Guatemalan police near Agua Caliente, Guatemala, on the border with Honduras. The reasons Hondurans continue to flee their country have been well documented: pervasive violence, deep-seated corruption, lack of jobs and widespread destruction from two major hurricanes that struck the region last November. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy, File, File)

Hopelessness continues driving Hondurans to migrate

By DELMER MARTÍNEZ and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

US seeks seizure of Mexican homes linked to drug lord

Associated Press

A farmer works in a marijuana field in the mountains surrounding Badiraguato, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. In Mexico, the marijuana legalization effort is generating uncertainty among families that have cultivated the crop for generations, with many fearing that prices they are paid will continue to drop and what capos will do when faced with a new legal business. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Growers fret as Mexico moves to legalize marijuana

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2020 file photo, workers wearing full protection gear amid the new coronavirus pandemic, lower a coffin into a grave in an area of the San Rafael municipal cemetery set apart for people who have died from COVID-19, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. According to a report released the third week of April, by the University of California, San Francisco, Mexico would have had a significantly lower COVID-19 death toll if it had reacted as well as the average government. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

Report: Mexico’s COVID-19 policies cost huge number of lives

By EDUARDO VERDUGO - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 30, 2021 file photo, a smuggler takes migrants, mostly from Central American countries, on a small inflatable raft towards U.S. soil, in Roma, Texas. Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Wednesday, April 14, 2021, it was protecting human rights that was motivating Mexico’s efforts to stop child migrants en route to the U.S. from being smuggled into the country. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Mexico president focusing efforts to stop child migrants

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Wednesday, April 14, 2021, in Washington. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., and Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., right. cropped from original (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Kamala Harris receives ‘Missing Children’-inspired milk carton roast for absence on border crisis

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Tucson man gets federal prison term for firearms smuggling

Associated Press

Transgender sex worker Geraldine wearing cat make-up, sits on her usual corner as she waits for clients outside the Revolution subway station, in Mexico City, Saturday, March 13, 2021. Geraldine, 30, a sex worker since age 15, says many of her regular clients have stopped coming amid the coronavirus pandemic and that seeing new clients presents new health and security risks. She is most concerned about the risk of bringing COVID-19 home to her partner, who has diabetes. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Pandemic, hunger force thousands into sex work in Mexico

By REBECCA BLACKWELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 19, 2021, file photo, migrants are seen in custody at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing area under the Anzalduas International Bridge, in Mission, Texas. U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March. It's the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major test for President Joe Biden as he reverses many of his predecessor's hardline immigration tactics. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Policy changes help drive US migrant crossings to new highs

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Minors reside inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas, March 30, 2021. More Americans disapprove than approve of how President Joe Biden is handling waves of unaccompanied immigrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, and his efforts on larger immigration policy aren’t polling as well as those on other top issues. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool) ** FILE **

Chris Wallace: Kamala Harris seems to want zero ‘fingerprints’ on Biden’s migrant ‘mess’ at border

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Man admits role in credit card scam targeting crafts chain

Associated Press

Migrants disembark on the Mexican side of the border after crossing the Usumacinta River from Guatemala, in Frontera Corozal, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexico expects a ‘constant and growing’ flow of migrants

Associated Press

Maria Castrejon, 71, grimaces as she is vaccinated with a second dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine at the Americas Cultural Center, in Ecatepec, Mexico, Saturday, April 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Mexico’s vaccine campaign faces problems, successes

Associated Press

FILE - In this May 25, 2020 file photo, Maria Del Carmen Acero Camacho, center left, embraces one of her nieces as she is reunited with her family after 21 days in the hospital battling COVID-19, in the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City. Acero returned home weak, but vivacious, recounting to her family the kindness and encouragement of the nurses who cared for her, as well as the devastation of watching fellow patients dying around her. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Mexico’s indirect COVID-19 deaths may be over 120,000

Associated Press

Migrant families, mostly from Central American countries, wade through shallow waters after being delivered by smugglers on small inflatable rafts on U.S. soil in Roma, Texas, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. As soon as the sun sets, at least 100 migrants crossed through the Rio Grande river by smugglers into the United States. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Team Biden tuned out Trump’s warnings, modeling on migrant surge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo taken by a drone, the border wall construction is seen near farmland, Friday, March 19, 2021, in Progreso, Mexico. A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive. The head of Homeland Security acknowledged the severity of the problem Tuesday but insisted it's under control. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Jose Cruz Noguez charged in smuggling that led to 13 migrants’ deaths

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mexican soldiers seized after Guatemalan killed near border

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

A smuggler paddles a small inflatable raft across the Rio Grande from Mexico into the U.S. carrying migrant families in Roma, Texas, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) ** FILE **

AP PHOTOS: For migrants at border, both opportunity and risk

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Mexico president seeks to clamp down on private gas stations

Associated Press