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FILE - In this July 4, 2019 file photo, a group of asylum seekers cross the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Thursday, July 4, 2019. (Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP)

Trump’s new asylum rules go into effect, and opponents sue

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and CEDAR ATTANASIO - Associated Press

Mexico investigates body believed to be US car dealer

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This photo distributed by Mexico’s Secretary of Ecology and the Environment (SEMA) in Quintana Roo state shows a fire burning in the Sian Ka'an nature reserve on the Yucatan peninsula, near Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Mexico, Sunday, July 14, 2019. The civil protection coordinator for the state of Quintana Roo said Sunday the fire has already consumed 600 hectares (1,500 acres) of brush and other plants. (SEMA via AP)

Fire rages through reserve in Mexico’s resort-filled Yucatan

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In this April 1, 2019, file photo, Attorney General William Barr attends the 2019 Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act Celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

The Latest: Mexico ‘does not agree’ with new US asylum rule

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FILE - In this July 4, 2019 file photo, a group of asylum seekers cross the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Thursday, July 4, 2019. (Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP)

Trump moves to effectively end asylum at southern border

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard gives a press conference about new U.S. restrictions on asylum seekers in Mexico City, Monday, July 15, 2019. Ebrard said his country "does not agree with any measure that limits access to asylum," a reference to measures announced Monday by the U.S. government to end asylum protections for most migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)

Mexico ‘does not agree’ with Trump asylum rule

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This undated photo provided by 4th Row Films shows Fernando Serrano, 23, who plays a striking miner in &quot;Bisbee '17,&quot; a story of how some 1,200 miners, most of them immigrants, were pulled violently from their homes in Bisbee, Ariz., by a private police force and put on cattle cars for deportation to a desolate area of New Mexico in 1917. The dark history of Bisbee was largely an open secret for decades in the funky old copper town just seven miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. It's the sixth film of director Robert Greene, who said he learned about the town southeastern Arizona around 15 years ago. (Jarred Alterman/4th Row Films via AP)

Film airing on PBS recalls city’s dark deportation history

By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens to testimony by Yazmin Juárez, whose daughter Mariee, 1, died after being released from detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), during a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties to discuss treatment of immigrant children at the southern border, Wednesday, July 10, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Latest: Trump says Dems exaggerated border conditions

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This June 17, 2019 photo shows a collection of Wounaan woven baskets from Colombia, at Galeria Atotonilco near San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. (Emil Varona/Kim Curtis via AP)

Gallery in central Mexico displays a trove of folk art

By KIM CURTIS - Associated Press

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. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Updated NAFTA deal deserves quick passage

By Matt Mackowiak

Mexico says US development aid to fund wind farm, LNG plant

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In this Feb. 5, 2019 file photo, Border Patrol agent Vincent Pirro walks towards prototypes for a border wall in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File) **FILE**

Illegal immigration drops 28% after deal with Mexico

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This Dec. 14, 2017 photo shows Carlos Urzua during a press conference where he named his cabinet during his unsuccessful run for presidency, in Mexico City. Urzua, named treasury secretary under longtime ally President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, resigned Tuesday, July 9, 2019, complaining of the appointment of unqualified officials by “influential people in the current administration who have clear conflicts of interest.” (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico’s treasury secretary resigns, cites interference

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Lucia Ascencio, of Venezuela, carries a suitcase after she and her husband and two sons were returned to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, as part of the first group of migrants sent back to Mexico's Tamaulipas state under the so-called Remain in Mexico program for U.S. asylum seekers, Tuesday, July 9, 2019. Approximately 10 migrants crossed the border Monday to seek U.S. asylum and were sent back on Tuesday to wait as their applications are processed. (AP Photo/Salvador Gonzalez)

US returns first asylum seekers to violent Nuevo Laredo

By JUAN ANTONIO CALDERON and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Striking police continue to hold a federal police command center in the Iztapalapa borough, in Mexico City, Thursday, July 4, 2019, to protest against plans to force them into the newly formed National Guard. On Wednesday, federal police held the command center and blocked key highways around the capital. They expressed concerns about potentially losing their salaries, benefits and seniority if they transferred to the National Guard and being left unemployed if they don't join the new force. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Only 60% of Mexican federal police make grade for new force

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Lucia Ascencio, of Venezuela, carries a suitcase after she and her husband and two sons were returned to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, as part of the first group of migrants sent back to Mexico's Tamaulipas state under the so-called Remain in Mexico program for U.S. asylum seekers, Tuesday, July 9, 2019. Approximately 10 migrants crossed the border Monday to seek U.S. asylum and were sent back on Tuesday to wait as their applications are processed. (AP Photo/Salvador Gonzalez)

Border numbers drop amid heat, Mexico crackdown

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

In this April 27, 1966, file photo, Volkswagen workers drive their Beetle cars from the parking lot on their way home at the end of the workday at the world's largest single auto plant, the Volkswagen factory (seen in background) in Wolfsburg, Germany. Volkswagen is halting production of the last version of its Beetle model in July 2019 at its plant in Puebla, Mexico, the end of the road for a vehicle that has symbolized many things over a history spanning eight decades since 1938. (AP Photo, file)

Volkswagen is halting production of last version of its Beetle model

By David McHugh - Associated Press

Artist from Mexico completes colorful murals in West Texas

By ROYAL McGREGOR - Associated Press

Migrant children eat a meal provided by United in Christ Ministry of Los Fresnos, Texas, a group who brings dinner every Thursday in rotation with other volunteers who organize to provide daily meals, at the Puerta Mexico international bridge, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Mexican police, soldiers and National Guard have recently been raiding hotels, buses and trains to round up migrants, creating scenes that have caused an outcry in the United States, but in Mexico there has been little backlash despite the historical sympathy for the plight of migrants. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico extends $100 million reforesting program to Honduras

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Two-thirds of all U.S. voters now frown upon accepting people with "questionable" asylum claims, according to a new survey. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Harvard poll finds voters now tough on illegal immigration

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times