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This June 2018 file photo shows protesters walking along Montana Avenue outside the El Paso Processing Center in El Paso, Texas. Two dozen people being held in immigration detention in Louisiana are on a hunger strike to protest their inability to be free while making a case for asylum. Immigrant advocates say the strike started last week with about 150 people, but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says only 24 people have continuously denied meals. The strike follows one in El Paso in which ICE force-fed some of the detainees after obtaining a court order. (Rudy Gutierrez/The El Paso Times via AP, File)

24 immigrants go on hunger strike to protest US detainment

By ASTRID GALVAN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Thursday, March 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Trump threatens to shut Mexico border - ‘not kidding around’

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

Jeh Johnson, former President Barack Obama’s DHS Secretary, discusses border security on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe," March 29, 2019. (Image: MSNBC videos screenshot)

Jeh Johnson says border crisis is real: ‘I cannot begin to imagine’ 4K apprehensions per day

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump talks with reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Trump has been dealt a second setback in a week for his administration's health care initiatives. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday struck down a small-business health insurance plan widely touted by Trump after another judge on Wednesday blocked Medicaid work requirements for low-income people. Trump has hailed the small-business plan as a big success, but its impact is difficult to measure. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump vows ‘closing’ border to punish Mexico for illegal immigration

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on the need for strengthened border security by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

How enhanced border security succeeds

By Paul Davis

Central American migrants, part of the caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, take a break in Acacoyagua, Chiapas State, Mexico, Thursday, March 28, 2019. A caravan of about 2,500 Central Americans and Cubans is currently making its way through Mexico's southern state of Chiapas. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

Mexico braces for new caravan of Central American migrants

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President Donald Trump speaks before awarding the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins with Atkins' son Trevor Oliver, 22, accepting the posthumous recognition for conspicuous gallantry in Iraq in June 2007, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday March 27, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump lashes out at Central America, Mexico on border

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

Central American migrants, part of the caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, move on a road in Tapachula, Chiapas State, Mexico, Thursday, March 28, 2019. A caravan of about 2,500 Central Americans and Cubans is currently making its way through Mexico's southern state of Chiapas. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

Mexico braces for ‘mother of all caravans’

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FILE - In this March 15, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump signs the first veto of his presidency in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Trump issued the first veto, overruling Congress to protect his emergency declaration for border wall funding. Trump is nearing a victory over Democrats as the House tries overriding his first veto. Tuesday’s vote seems certain to fail, which means his declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border would stand. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The Latest: House unable to override Trump veto on border

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In this Nov. 6, 2018, file photo, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., speaks in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Steve Dykes, File)

New trade deal getting a boost from Donald Trump, business groups

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

New migrant caravan of 2,500 sets out through Mexico for US

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Central American migrants begin their morning trek as part of a thousands-strong caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, as they face the Pico de Orizaba volcano upon departure from Cordoba, Veracruz state, Mexico, Monday, Nov. 5, 2018. A big group of Central Americans pushed on toward Mexico City from a coastal state Monday, planning to exit a part of the country that has long been treacherous for migrants seeking to get to the United States. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

New migrant caravan of 2,500 gets cool reception in Mexico

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FILE - In this Friday, March 8, 2019 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador answers questions from journalists at his daily 7 a.m. press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City. Lopez Obrador said he sent a letter to Spain and the Vatican on March 1, asking them to apologize for the conquest of the Americas five centuries ago. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico president calls for truth commission on conquest

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 26, 2016 file photo, family members and supporters of 43 missing teachers college students carry pictures of the students as they march to demand the case not be closed and that experts' recommendations about new leads be followed, in Mexico City. On Sunday, March 24, 2019, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vowed to ramp up efforts to identify thousands of bodies in government custody at forensic institutions across Mexico, while thousands more Mexicans are missing, their bodies presumed to be in clandestine graves. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

No ‘financial ceiling’ in search for missing in Mexico

By AMY GUTHRIE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 19, 2019, file photo, two men, both of Honduras, gather with attorneys to pray before crossing into the United States to begin their asylum cases after being returned to Mexico in Tijuana, Mexico. A U.S. judge in San Francisco will scrutinize the Trump administration's policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico during a court hearing Friday, March 22, 2019, to help him decide whether to block the practice. Civil rights groups have asked Judge Richard Seeborg to put the asylum policy on hold while their lawsuit moves forward. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

The Latest: Judge hears fight over Trump asylum policy

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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 19, 2019, file photo, two men, both of Honduras, gather with attorneys to pray before crossing into the United States to begin their asylum cases after being returned to Mexico in Tijuana, Mexico. A U.S. judge in San Francisco will scrutinize the Trump administration's policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico during a court hearing Friday, March 22, 2019, to help him decide whether to block the practice. Civil rights groups have asked Judge Richard Seeborg to put the asylum policy on hold while their lawsuit moves forward. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Judge scrutinizes Trump’s policy shift on asylum seekers

By SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

A mural of Nelson Mandela, who spent many of his imprisoned years in an island prison in South Africa, adorns a gate in front of the dock where prison staff and inmates arrive in Navy boats to the now closed Islas Maria penal colony located off Mexico's Pacific coast, at dawn Sunday, March 17, 2019. Islas Marias was the last of its kind, the final of a half dozen island penal colonies that were scattered around Latin America. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexico’s last penal colony starts new life as nature center

By REBECCA BLACKWELL - Associated Press

In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, photo, Hillary Herrera Cortez, 3, peers over the shoulder of her mother, Hildy Cortez Martinez, as the two wait for Border Patrol agents to process them at the U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas. Hildy Cortez said she named her daughter after former U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Cradling children, migrant families cross border in waves

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Report: Slain Mexican journalist’s widow targeted by spyware

By MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

A migrant sits with his children as they wait to hear if their number is called to apply for asylum in the United States, at the border, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, in Tijuana, Mexico. The Trump administration on Friday will start forcing some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. courts, an official said, launching what could become one of the more significant changes to the immigration system in years. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Trump asylum policy dealt setback in immigration court

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press