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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

FILE - In this June 18, 2019, file photo, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congressional Democrats appear to be moving from “no way’’ to “maybe’’ on President Donald Trump’s rewrite of a trade pact with Canada and Mexico. House Democrats have met four times with Lighthizer, most recently on Friday, July 26, and both sides say they are making progress toward a deal that would clear the way for Congress to approve Trump’s U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Trump administration, Democrats make progress on new NAFTA

By PAUL WISEMAN and KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

Contestants in the Miss Transgender Beauty pageant from the states of Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi and Chiapas dance during the opening event in Mexico City, Saturday, July 27, 2019. It was the second edition of the pageant, which was begun as part of an effort to make transgender women more visible and accepted in Mexican society. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Mexico crowns transgender beauty queen in bid for acceptance

By LISSETTE ROMERO and MICHAEL KRUMHOLTZ - Associated Press

Catholic charities tested by abuse scandals, border crisis

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

In this April 30, 2019, photo, Arlinda Valencia poses at her home in El Paso, Texas, with a portrait of her great-grandfather Longino Flores, who was murdered at the age of 44 by Texas Rangers and U.S. Army soldiers in the Porvenir Massacre of 1918. As the U.S. prepares to remember the 100th anniversary of &quot;Red Summer,&quot; a period in 1919 when white mobs attacked and murdered African Americans in dozens of cities across the country, some historians and Latino activists say now also is the time to acknowledge the terror experienced by Mexican Americans right before that brutal year. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

Mexican Americans faced racial terror from 1910-1920

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS and CEDAR ATTANASIO - Associated Press

In this July 18, 2019, file photo, a migrant child and his father stay together after being bused by Mexican migration authorities from Nuevo Laredo to Monterrey, Mexico. Unlike asylum seekers who wait in line, often for months, to file claims in the U.S. and then return to the Mexican border cities where they were before, all those taken to Monterrey who spoke with AP said they had crossed illegally and spent several days in U.S. detention centers before being returned with a court date. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Hundreds of U.S. returnees dumped in Mexico’s Monterrey

By Maria Verza - Associated Press

In this July 17, 2019, file photo, a United States Customs and Border Protection Officer checks the documents of migrants before being taken to apply for asylum in the United States, on International Bridge 1 in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Judge blocks Trump asylum restrictions at US-Mexico border

By AMY TAXIN and ASHRAF KHALIL - Associated Press

Ben Terrall holds a protest sign that reads &quot;Close The Camps&quot; outside of the San Francisco Federal Courthouse on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 in San Francisco, Calif. A federal judge said Wednesday that the Trump administration can enforce its new restrictions on asylum for people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border while lawsuits challenging the policy play out. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)

The Latest: Judge blocks asylum policy at US-Mexico border

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Mexican authorities find 21 bodies buried in yard of house

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In this June 10, 2019 photo, Salvadoran teen migrant Milagro de Jesus Henriquez Ayala carries her newborn son Alexander, as she boards Rev. Albert Rivera's car, outside the Tijuana General Hospital in Mexico. Rev. Rivera organized a protest and got human rights officials involved when the hospital initially denied her father access to her after she gave birth. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Teen mom, newborn eye new life from Tijuana migrant shelter

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

In this June 17, 2018, file photo, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, from right, from Oregon, speaks to the media along with U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, center, D-Md., U.S. Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., and U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., in front of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector's Centralized Processing Center in McAllen, Texas. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP, File)

Jeff Merkley: Child separation is still happening

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

CORRECTS DAY OF ARRIVAL - In this handout photo released by the U.S. State Department, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo deplanes in Mexico City, Saturday, July 20, 2019. Pompeo met with his Mexican counterpart Marcelo Ebrard on Sunday near the end of a Latin American tour. (U.S. State Department via AP)

US notes advance in Mexican migration enforcement

By AMY GUTHRIE and PETER ORSI - Associated Press

In this July 2, 2019 photo provided by Jesse Tellera, asylum seeker Claudio Aviles sits by a posted list of migrants who are in San Luis Río Colorado, Mexico, waiting to seek asylum in the United States. Aviles, of Guerrero, Mexico, has since made it to the U.S. with his wife and young children. Thousands of asylum seekers are waiting on the Mexican side of the border to ask for asylum in the U.S., which has severely restricted the number of people it allows in each day. (Jesse Tellera via AP)

Some asylum seekers forced to wait in Mexico help each other

By ASTRID GALVAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2018, file photo, Yenly Morales,left, and Yenly Herrera, right, immigrants from Cuba seeking asylum in the United States, wait on the Brownsville and Matamoros International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico. The U.S. government will expand its policy requiring asylum seekers to wait outside the country in one of Mexico's most dangerous cities. According to officials for two congressional Democrats, the Department of Homeland Security says it will implement its &quot;Migrant Protection Protocols&quot; in Brownsville, Texas, across the border from Matamoros, Mexico. Matamoros is in Mexico's Tamaulipas state, which the U.S. government warns citizens not to visit due to violence and kidnappings.(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

US to send asylum seekers back to dangerous part of Mexico

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Salvadoran farmer Jose Jacobo Orellana, who five years ago saw his son leave illegally for the United States, walks during the launch of the &quot;Sowing Life&quot; program, in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, Friday, July 19, 2019. El Salvador and Mexico have joined forces in an economic program that is supposed to generate 20 thousand jobs in El Salvador. The program called “Sowing Life”will give farmers $250 as a monthly stipend to help them grow their own crops. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Mexico tree plan in El Salvador aims to stem migration

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10 arrested during sit-in protest at ICE headquarters in DC

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Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan is sworn in to testify before a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Homeland Security chief: Family border separations are down

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

Pastor Aaron Mendes speaks to migrants staying at his AMAR migrant shelter in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Asylum-seekers grappled to understand what a new U.S. policy that all but eliminates refugee claims by Central Americans and many others meant for their bids to find a better life in America amid a chaos of rumors, confusion and fear. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Asylum seekers waiting in Nuevo Laredo fear lurking dangers

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 5, 2019, file photo, cargo containers are staged near cranes at the Port of Tacoma, in Tacoma, Wash. Some are moving factories out of China. Others are strategically redesigning products. Some are seeking loopholes in trade law or even mislabeling where their goods originate, all with the goal of evading President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on goods from China. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Facing Trump’s tariffs, some companies move, change or wait

By PAUL WISEMAN and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO and JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

Mexico investigates body believed to be US car dealer

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