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19 bodies hung from bridge or hacked up in Mexico gang feud

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

In this Aug. 1, 2019, photo, migrants rest near a Mexican immigration center where migrants set up camp in Matamoros, Mexico. Turning Mexican border cities into waiting rooms for asylum seekers may be the Trump administration’s most forceful response yet to a surge of migrants, many of them Central American families. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Border numbers dip below 100k for 1st time in months

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

In this June 15, 2019, photo, migrants cross the Rio Bravo illegally to surrender to the American authorities, on the U.S.-Mexico border between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Illegal immigration across border plummets as Mexico steps up

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Killings at tortilla shop follow extortion protest in Mexico

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Correction: Mexico-UN-Forced Disappearance story

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In this July 12, 2019 file photo, men stand in a U.S. Immigration and Border Enforcement detention center in McAllen, Texas, during a visit by Vice President Mike Pence. Immigration lawyers say a pattern has repeated itself for several weeks in migrant detention facilities along the border. Immigrants are being detained in packed cells only to be transferred out within hours once the government is sued on their behalf. (Josh Dawsey/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Mitigating the border crisis

By Andy Biggs

This undated photo provided by the Newport Beach Police Department shows Peter Chadwick who authorities are seeking the public's help in finding. Authorities say a Southern California millionaire charged with strangling his wife to death has been captured after being on the run for the past four years. U.S. Marshals spokesperson Lynzey Donahue said Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, that Chadwick was arrested but declined to provide details. (Newport Beach Police Department via AP,File)

Peter Chadwick, ‘48 Hours’ millionaire murder suspect, arrested in Mexico

By Amy Taxin - Associated Press

US judge gives ‘El Chapo’ associate a 28-year prison term

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

In this June 15, 2019, file photo, migrants cross the Rio Grande illegally to surrender to the American authorities on the U.S.-Mexico border between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso. El Paso has swiftly become one of the busiest corridors for illegal border crossings in the U.S. after years as one of the sleepiest. (AP Photo/Christian Torres, File)

Before massacre, El Paso became a hot spot on Mexican border

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and CEDAR ATTANASIO - Associated Press

People gather in Juarez, Mexico, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019, in a vigil for the three Mexican nationals who were killed in an El Paso shopping-complex shooting. Twenty people were killed and more than two dozen injured in a shooting Saturday in a busy shopping area in the Texas border town of El Paso, the state’s governor said. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Mexico: Texas shooting ‘act of terrorism’ against Mexicans

By Amy Guthrie - Associated Press

Migrants return to Mexico, using the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses the Rio Grande river, in Matamoros, Mexico, Wednesday, July 31, 2019, on the border with Brownsville, Texas. The United States government has sent some 800 mostly Central American and Cuban immigrants back to this northern Mexico border city since expanding its controversial plan to this easternmost point on the shared border two weeks ago, according to local Mexican authorities. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

900 asylum seekers returned to wait in Mexican border city

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Venezuelan migrant Alexander Beja poses for a portrait in Ciudad Verde, Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, August 1, 2019. Beja was discovered singing on the streets of Bogota by members of the hit pop band Camila and invited by the group to record with them in their native Mexico. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Street singing Venezuelan migrant gets chance of a lifetime

By CÉSAR GARCÍA - Associated Press

A soldier stands outside a newly opened migrant shelter, formerly an assembly plant, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. The Mexican government opened its first shelter here to house Central American and other migrants seeking asylum in the United States who have been sent back to Mexico to await the process. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

Mexico opens first government shelter for asylum seekers

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Mexico police kill migrant accused of shooting at them

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In this July 24, 2019 photo, Ruth poses outside her place of business in Los Angeles. Ruth's brothers, Carlos and Juan, from Guatemala were held inside jam-packed U.S. Border Patrol cells for about 30 days in South Texas after crossing the border illegally. It’s a pattern that immigration lawyers say has repeated itself for several weeks: Adults are detained in packed Border Patrol cells, malnourished, poorly treated and incommunicado, only to be moved within hours once the government is sued on their behalf. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Border Patrol detains adults with no end - until lawyers sue

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE - This July 24, 2019 photo courtesy of Guatemalan migrant Lucia shows her husband Rene with their 7-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son, as they walk in search of a place to sleep in Monterrey, Mexico. Rene said they were given a Sept. 20 court date in the U.S. for their asylum request, and promised Mexico would provide housing, work and schooling, but in Mexico they were bused to Monterrey without explanation or support. (Lucia via AP)

Fear, bribes, gangs, coyotes: A Guatemalan’s trek to the US

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Migrants sit after being detained during an immigration raid on the cargo train known as "La Bestia" in San Mateo, Chiapas state, Mexico, late Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Under increasing U.S. pressure to reduce the flow of hundreds of thousands of Central Americans through Mexican territory, Mexico’s government has stepped up enforcement. (AP Photo)

Mexico: Migrants headed for U.S. border down 39% since May

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FILE - In this May 8, 2019 file photo, sargassum seaweed covers the beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The governor of Mexico’s Quintana Roo state says he expects to spend $30 million in 2019 on removing masses of sargassum seaweed that have washed up on its Caribbean beaches. (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz, File)

Mexican governor says state could spend $30M on seaweed mess

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Mexico says number of migrants down 39% since May

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Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania speaks during a town hall meeting with a politically divided crowd at the Hummelstown Fire Department station, Tuesday, July 30, 2019, in Hummelstown, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

At town hall, Perry jousts over Trump, immigration and guns

By MARC LEVY - Associated Press