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FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2019, file photo, migrants who are applying for asylum in the United States go through a processing area at a new tent courtroom at the Migration Protection Protocols Immigration Hearing Facility, in Laredo, Texas. In the latest twist for a signature Trump administration immigration policy, a federal appeals court said it is halting a policy next week to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for court hearings in the United States. But the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Wednesday, March 4, 2020, that it would only block the &quot;Remain in Mexico&quot; policy in Arizona and California, the two border states where its authority extends. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Court blocks ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy on part of US border

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

A pair of workers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport wear masks Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in SeaTac, Wash. Six of the 18 Western Washington residents with the coronavirus have died as health officials rush to test more suspected cases and communities brace for spread of the disease. All confirmed cases of the virus in Washington are in Snohomish and King counties. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Feds investigate nursing home as U.S. death toll hits 11

By GENE JOHNSON and RACHEL LA CORTE and MARTHA BELLISLE - Associated Press

President Donald Trump tours a section of the southern border wall, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Otay Mesa, Calif. President Trump is asking a federal judge to block an effort by New York prosecutors to obtain his tax returns. Trump’s attorneys filed a lawsuit Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, in U.S. District Court in New York.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

9th Circuit Court blocks ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy in Arizona, California

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

FILE - Archbishop Charles Scicluna, left, and Spanish Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu attend a meeting with the Catholic community at the Sacred Heart of Jesus church in Osorno, Chile, in this Saturday, June 16, 2018 file photo. The Vatican is sending its top two sex crimes investigators to Mexico on a fact-finding and assistance mission as the Catholic hierarchy in the world's second-largest Catholic country begins to reckon with decades of clergy sex abuse and cover-up. (AP Photo/Fernando Lavoz)

4 Mexican bishops referred to superiors in sex abuse cases

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

In this Feb. 7, 2020, image, an African seeking asylum sits at a hotel in Tijuana, Mexico. Many countries in North and South America are blocking the path for Africans who are struggling to seek asylum in the United States. People from Cameroon and other African nations often win their cases in the United States but they first must reach American soil. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Trump allies in Americas block Africans’ path to US asylum

By PETER ORSI and GONZALO SOLANO and ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf testifies before a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on the coronavirus and the FY2021 budget, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Chad Wolf, DHS chief, unaware of Donald Trump’s claim of Mexican ‘redemption’ wall money

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Pope Francis delivers his blessing during the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, March 1, 2020. A coughing Pope Francis told pilgrims gathered for the traditional Sunday blessing that he is canceling his participation at a week-long spiritual retreat in the Roman countryside because of a cold. It is the first time in his seven-year papacy that he has missed the spiritual exercises that he initiated early in his pontificate to mark the start of each Lenten season. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican sends top 2 sex crimes investigators to Mexico

By NICOLE WINFIELD and MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

A street vendor wears a mask over his mouth as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus in Mexico City, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Mexico's assistant health secretary announced Friday that the country now has confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Ecuador reports 1st new virus case; Mexico confirms 2 more

By GONZALO SOLANO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2019 file photo, Mexican writer and activist Javier Sicilia, from left, Julian LeBaron and brother Adrian, pose for photos during a press conference in Mexico City. Julian LeBaron, a prominent member of a community of U.S.-Mexican dual citizens living in northern Mexico that was shattered by the November massacre of three women and six children along a rural road has fled to the United States after an apparent threat on his life. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Outspoken gang critic LeBarón flees threat in Mexico for US

By PETER ORSI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2019 file photo, asylum seekers, in Tijuana, Mexico, listen to names being called from a waiting list to claim asylum at a border crossing in San Diego. A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a major Trump administration policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts. A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 in a 2-1 vote to put on hold the policy that furthered President Donald Trump's asylum crackdown. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat, File)

Court halts Trump asylum policy, then suspends its own order

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

In this July 10, 2019, photo, Juan Carlos Perla, passes a sign leading to the border as he travels with his family from their home in Tijuana, Mexico, for an asylum hearing in San Diego. The Perlas are faring better than most of the roughly 60,000 asylum-seekers returned to Mexico under a Trump administration policy, many of whom live in fear of being robbed, assaulted, raped or killed. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Appeals court blocks Trump’s ‘remain in Mexico’ policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A man wears a mask over his mouth as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19 in Mexico City, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Mexico’s assistant health secretary announced Friday that the country now has confirmed cases of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Fernando)

Mexico confirms first 2 cases of coronavirus

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In this Oct. 5, 2019, file photo, migrants seeking asylum wait in line with their case paperwork during a weekly trip by volunteers, lawyers, paralegals and interpreters to the migrant campsite outside El Puente Nuevo in Matamoros, Mexico. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald via AP, File)

The Latest: Court ruling disrupts migrant family’s hearing

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FILE - In this June 2, 2011 file photo, Mexico's Genaro Garcia Luna speaks during a ceremony to designate June 2 as the Federal Police Day in Mexico City. The former Federal Secretary of Public Safety is to be arraigned in New York, on Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. The indictment claims that Garcia Luna allegedly received millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini, File)

Feds cite new evidence against former Mexico security chief

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves during an event marking Army Day at the Zocalo, accompanied by first lady Beatriz Gutierrez Muller, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico president ties shootout dead to drug consumption

By PETER ORSI - Associated Press

This Feb. 13, 2020 photo shows a memorial for Juan Carlos Medina Serrano in his family's living room, the day his remains were buried, in Irapuato, Guanajuato state, Mexico. Armed men took the 32-year-old from his house on Dec. 3. A few days later, authorities found 19 rotting bodies buried in a backyard in a nearby town, but it took two months for them to notify his wife that her husband was one of the bodies. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Violence, industry co-exist in conservative Mexican state

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Mexico data confirm 0.1% economic contraction in 2019

By PETER ORSI - Associated Press

In this Feb. 7, 2020 photo, a Honduran delivery driver stands for a portrait in Guatemala City, where U.S authorities sent him to apply for Guatemalan asylum rather than allowing him to apply in the U.S. Fearing for his life, the 25-year-old had fled to the United States-Mexico border and requested asylum. After nine days in custody, he was put on a plane in McAllen, Texas, and sent to Guatemala City. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

‘Deportation with a layover:’ US sends migrants to Guatemala

By SONIA PÉREZ D. and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Leaders: 2020 forecast is rosy for border trade with Mexico

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Patrick Reed of the United States poses with the trophy after winning the WGC-Mexico Championship golf tournament, at the Chapultepec Golf Club in Mexico City, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) ** FILE **

Patrick Reed plays better as the accusations get louder

By Doug Ferguson - Associated Press