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Police and paramedics gather around a vehicle where the body of an unidentified man lies inside, after he died on his way to the hospital after suffering stab wounds in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. San Pedro Sula was the world's most murderous city four years straight from 2011 to 2014, and the country's nation-wide murder rate in 2018 was 41 per 100,000, one of the highest on the planet. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)

Violence, poverty reign in Honduran city where caravans form

By SONIA PÉREZ D. - Associated Press

In this April 29, 2019, photo, Cuban migrants are escorted by Mexican immigration officials in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as they cross the Paso del Norte International bridge to be processed as asylum seekers on the U.S. side of the border. Burgeoning numbers of Cubans are trying to get into the U.S. by way of the Mexican border, creating a big backlog of people waiting on the Mexican side for months for their chance to apply for asylum. (AP Photo/Christian Torres)

Burgeoning numbers of Cubans trying to enter U.S. via Mexico

By Cedar Attansio, Elliot Spagat and Michael Weissenstein - Associated Press

In this April 29, 2019, file photo, Mexican President Andr&#233;s Manuel L&#243;pez Obrador attends a ceremony at the Military Airbase Number 1 in Santa Lucia, on the outskirts of Mexico City. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Andres Lopez Obrador, Mexico president, relents on Trump rhetoric

By Frederic Puglie — Special To The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 23, 2019, file photo, a self-styled Patriot stands a quarter mile from a barrier that marks the U.S.-Mexico border after his group, United Constitutional Patriots, gained national attention for filming themselves detaining immigrants near Sunland Park, N.M. Throughout U.S. history, private, armed groups have been hired or appointed themselves to police the U.S-Mexico border for a variety of reason, ranging from preventing Chinese immigrants from crossing over illegally to preventing runaway slaves from fleeing. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)

AP Explains: Militias have patrolled US border for decades

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

In this May 8, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Panama City Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Trump has long seen previous US trade agreements as losers

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

Marshals say suspect in Arizona death extradited from Mexico

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Sargassum seaweed covers the beach in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. Experts say the presence of sargassum seaweed is the new normal and residents are going to have get used to it. (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz)

Mexico’s prized beaches threatened by smelly algae invasion

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 24, 2019 file photo, Vice President Mike Pence speaks at an auto industry discussion of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement in Taylor, Mich. Pence plans two tour stops in Minnesota on Thursday, May 9, 2019, to talk about the stalled trade deal with Mexico and Canada. He's likely to hear differing opinions on part of the plan to replace NAFTA. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

The Latest: Pence says US working to reach China trade deal

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In this April 29, 2019, photo, Cuban migrants are escorted in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, by Mexican immigration officials as they cross the Paso del Norte International bridge to be processed as asylum seekers on the U.S. side of the border. U.S. authorities have been telling asylum seekers that they are at capacity and to return when space opens up, a hands-off approach that has created haphazard and often-dubious arrangements in Mexico. (AP Photo/Christian Torres)

AP finds 13,000 asylum seekers on border wait lists

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

In this April 29, 2019, photo, Cuban migrants are escorted in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, by Mexican immigration officials as they cross the Paso del Norte International bridge to be processed as asylum seekers on the U.S. side of the border. U.S. authorities have been telling asylum seekers that they are at capacity and to return when space opens up, a hands-off approach that has created haphazard and often-dubious arrangements in Mexico. (AP Photo/Christian Torres)

For thousands of asylum seekers, all they can do is wait

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and NOMAAN MERCHANT and PATRICIO ESPINOZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2019 file photo, a migrant family waits with others before being transported by Mexican authorities to the San Ysidro port of entry to begin the process of applying for asylum in the United States, in Tijuana, Mexico. People in overextended Mexican border cities voiced concern over their government’s silence about a U.S. policy that will continue making Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States wait south of the border, after a U.S. federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, May 8, that the Trump administration can make migrants wait in Mexico for their immigration hearings while the policy is challenged in court. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Mexico worries as US keeps making asylum seekers wait there

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, waves a flag to launch construction work during a ceremony at the Military Airbase Number 1 in Santa Lucia, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Monday, April 29, 2019. López Obrador symbolically launched work on a new airport for Mexico City to replace the nearly half-built $13 billion project he cancelled upon taking office.(AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexican government to handle construction of oil refinery

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

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EDITORIAL: No cheating on friends

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Mexico wants to re-invent US Merida aid program

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Pence to plug trade deal to Minnesota farmers, steelworkers

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Suanny Gomez, 24, from Honduras and seeking asylum in the United States, waits in a tent with her 5-year-old son, William, Tuesday, April 30, 2019, in Matamoros, Mexico. Gomez said she does not have money to pay a proposed fee for seeking asylum. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Donald Trump’s ‘Return to Mexico’ asylum policy vindicated by court

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 19, 2019 file photo, a van carrying asylum seekers from the border is escorted by security personnel as it arrives at immigration court, in San Diego. A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, May 7, 2019, that the Trump administration can force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for immigration court hearings while the policy is challenged in court, handing the president a major victory, even if it proves temporary. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Appeals court: Trump can make asylum seekers wait in Mexico

By BRIAN MELLEY and ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Mexico attorney general says Odebrecht case coming soon

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Small jet carrying 13 crashed in Mexico; no survivors seen

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From left to right, Marcell Ibarra, 18, Daffne Anselmo, 16, and Jamilet Fragoso, 16, comfort each other after talking about their close friend Thomas Torres, a Desert View High School student who was taken into custody on May 2 by Border Patrol after a traffic stop by a Pima County Sheriff's Department deputy in Tucson, Ariz., Monday, May 6, 2019. The students chanted, held a news conference and then were bussed back to school. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP)

Students protest as high school senior faces deportation

By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press