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FILE - In this May 25, 2006 file photo, thirty days after crossing into Mexico, Honduran migrants watch from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande as others take a bath as they wait for a good moment to cross the river into the U.S., from the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo is to begin receiving migrants returned from the United States to wait in Mexico while their asylum claims wind their way through U.S. courts, according to Nuevo Laredo Mayor Enrique Rivas on Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Nuevo Laredo says it will receive migrants returned from US

By MICHAEL KRUMHOLTZ and PETER ORSI - Associated Press

Funeral planned for 6-year-old girl who died at US border

Associated Press

A soldier stands guard at the Suchiate River, Mexico's natural border with Guatemala, near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, early Sunday, June 9, 2019. Mexican and U.S. officials reached an accord late Friday that calls on Mexico to crackdown on migrants in exchange for Trump backing off his threat to impose a 5% tariff on Mexico’s exports if it did not stem the flow of Central American migrants crossing its territory toward the U.S. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico deploys 15,000 troops to U.S. border to block migrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This March 2, 2019, file photo shows a Customs and Border Control agent patrols on the U.S. side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along the Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) ** FILE **

Seven bodies found in five days on border in Texas

By Stephen Dinan and Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Mexico's Jorge Sanchez celebrates his goal against Martinique during the first half of their CONCACAF Golf Cup soccer match in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, June 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Mexico tops Martinique 3-2 to reach Gold Cup quarterfinals

By STEVE REED - Associated Press

A marine, front, and National Guard, behind, stand guard outside an office of the General Attorney where migrants are brought before being transferred to Tapachula from Arriaga, Mexico, Sunday, June 23, 2019. Mexico has completed its deployment of 6,000 National Guard agents to help control the flow of migrants headed toward the U.S. and filled immigration agency posts to regulate border crossings, the government said Friday. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Mexico officials detain more migrants as crackdown steps up

By OLIVER de ROS - Associated Press

Military police wearing the insignia of the new National Guard coordinate at an immigration checkpoint in El Manguito, south of Tapachula, Mexico, Wednesday, June 19, 2019. New armbands marked with &quot;GN,&quot; the force's Spanish initials, adorn soldiers present at existing roadblocks around Tapachula, but other signs of the force are harder to spot, with only a few sightings of groups of National Guard soldiers patrolling the countryside or accompanying migration agents checking documents in Tapachula's town square. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico says National Guard deployment is complete

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

In this March 27, 2019, photo, Central American migrants wait for food in a pen erected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to process a surge of migrant families and unaccompanied minors in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio) **FILE**

Texas sending another 1,000 National Guard troops to border

By CLARICE SILBER - Associated Press

Members of a FUPCEG vigilante group patrol in Xaltianguis, Guerrero state, Mexico, Wednesday, May 29, 2019. The heavily armed vigilante force took over the town in the Mexican state of Guerrero last month by driving out a rival band, blowing up a car with gas cylinders and cutting up the body of one of two fallen foes. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Toxic mix of gangs, vigilantes fuels rising Mexican violence

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Mexico defender Diego Reyes, left, fights for control of the ball with Canada forward Lucas Cavallini during the first half of a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match Wednesday, June 19, 2019, it Mile High Stadium in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Guardado scores 2 as Mexico beats Canada 3-1

By MICHAEL KELLY - Associated Press

A group of migrants arriving from Guatemala disembark from a raft in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. The number of migrants taking rafts at the busy Ciudad Hidalgo crossing point appears to have decreased significantly in recent days amid fears of a pending deployment of the National Guard along the southern border. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

AP Interview: Border official says aid needed to save lives

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

A Haitian woman carries her daughter as she waits outside the Mexican Commission for Migrant Assistance office, to get the documents needed that allow them to stay in Mexico, in Tapachula, early Thursday, June 20, 2019. The flow of migrants into southern Mexico has seemed to slow in recent days as more soldiers, marines, federal police, many as part of Mexico's newly formed National Guard, deploy to the border under a tougher new policy adopted at a time of increased pressure from the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

Mexico, El Salvador to cooperate on reducing migration

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, June 20, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

With Canada’s PM, Trump tells Congress to get moving on NAFTA rewrite

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - This Sept. 26, 2018 file photo shows the Senate building in Mexico City. Mexico's Senate has voted on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 to ratify a new free trade agreement with the United States and Canada, making it the first of the three countries to gain legislative approval. Hanging on the fence are the teachers college students who disappeared on Sept. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Mexico’s Senate approves trade deal with US, Canada

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Male migrants bed down for the night on mattresses on the ground in the entry court of the Good Shepherd shelter in Tapachula, Mexico, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. Mexico's ramped-up effort to curb the flow of Central American migrants to the United States so far hasn't eased the burden on the dozens of independent humanitarian shelters like Good Shepherd that are scattered along migration routes through the country. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico’s migrant shelters overwhelmed in crackdown

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Montana attorney general travels to US-Mexico border

Associated Press

President Donald Trump waves as he departs after speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, June 14, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump fudges facts on economy, 2020 voting

By HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

This June 1, 2019 photo, shows the Siglo XXI migrant detention center in Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico. As of late April there were more than 2,000 migrants in Siglo XXI, according to the commission, over double its 960 capacity. (AP Photo/Pedro Giron)

Overcrowding, abuse seen at Mexico migrant detention center

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

A Mexican marine stands guard on the Suchiate River, watching out for migrants crossing from Guatemala to Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Sunday, June 16, 2019. Mexico faces heightened pressure from the U.S. to reduce the surge of mostly Central American migrants through its territory. (AP Photo/Idalia Rie)

Mexico cracks down on migrants after Donald Trump tariff threat

By Maria Verza and Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

A Mexican marine stands guard on the Suchiate River, watching out for migrants crossing from Guatemala to Ciudad Hidalgo, as locals stand on a raft in Mexico, Sunday, June 16, 2019. Mexico faces heightened pressure from the U.S. to reduce the surge of mostly Central American migrants through its territory. (AP Photo/Idalia Rie)

Mexico’s crackdown on migrants sends some heading south

By MARIA VERZA and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press