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FILE- In this Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, file photo seen from a window outside the Oval Office, President Donald Trump gives a prime-time address about border security at the White House in Washington. With the standoff over paying for his long-promised border wall dragging on, the president’s Oval Office address and visit to the Texas border over the past week failed to break the logjam and left aides and allies fearful that the president has misjudged Democratic resolve and is running out of negotiating options. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Analysis: Stagecraft won’t win shutdown battle for Trump

By CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks as he tours the U.S. border with Mexico at the Rio Grande on the southern border, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, in McAllen, Texas, as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listens at right. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

AP FACT CHECK: Trump goes wall to wall on the wall

By CALVIN WOODWARD and HOPE YEN - Associated Press

Vehicles stand in line to fill up their fuel tanks at a gas station in Mexico, City, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. A fuel scarcity arose after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador decided to close government pipelines riddled with illegal fuel taps drilled by thieves, and instead deliver gas and diesel by tanker trucks. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico deploys 4,000 troops, choppers against pipeline theft

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US hails WTO rulings in ‘dolphin-safe’ tuna tiff with Mexico

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Mexican president backtracks on military-led National Guard

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President Donald Trump speaks at a roundtable on immigration and border security at U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station, during a visit to the southern border, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump falsely claims Obama support for wall

By HOPE YEN and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

Migrants mainly from Mexico and Central America look on as U.S. President Donald Trump gives a prime-time address about border security Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, watching from a border migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

The Latest: Trump moves closer to emergency declaration

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Illustration on President Trump's tenacious attitude by Nancy Ohanian/Tribune Content Agency

The president and the wall

By Donald Lambro

21 dead bodies found in north Mexico after gang clash

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Vehicles stand in line to fill up their fuel tanks at a gas station in Mexico, City, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. A fuel scarcity arose after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador decided to close government pipelines riddled with illegal fuel taps drilled by thieves, and instead deliver gas and diesel by tanker trucks. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexican president claims sabotage, no retreat in fuel fight

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Texas official says state could build part of border wall

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President Donald Trump speaks at a roundtable on immigration and border security at U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station, during a visit to the southern border, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump alters claim on Mexico paying for wall

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This March 30, 2017, photo shows a portion of the new steel border fence that stretches along the US-Mexico border in Sunland Park, N.M. The Trump administration has proposed spending $18 billion over 10 years to significantly extend the border wall with Mexico. The plan provides one of the most detailed blueprints of how the president hopes to carry out a signature campaign pledge. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) **FILE**

Border agents: Steel fence not impenetrable but still needed

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

File - In this Oct. 19, 2017 file photo, people pass border wall prototypes as they stand near the border with Tijuana, Mexico, in San Diego. Montana's Senate president is proposing the state give more than $8 million to help build President Donald Trump's proposed wall on the Mexican border. Scott Sales, a Republican, says his proposal is a &quot;small token&quot; to show border security &quot;is of vital interest to all citizens regardless of what state they live in.&quot; (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

The Latest: South Dakota lawmakers endorse border wall

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FILE - In this March 7, 2018 file photo, then New Mexico Republican Gov. Susana Martinez is shown after signing the state's budget in Albuquerque, N.M. Martinez, who left office on Jan. 1, 2019, is defending President Donald Trump's call for a border wall and says &quot;it's disgusting&quot; not to call the situation on the U.S. Mexico-border a crisis. (AP Photo/ Russell Contreras, File)

Former New Mexico Gov. Martinez defends Trump’s border wall

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U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer speaks during an inauguration ceremony for the new Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, in New York, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ** FILE **

Chuck Schumer: Donald Trump didn’t persuade ‘a soul’ with Oval Office address

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

The Trump Reality Fence Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

‘Can the president alone build a border wall?’

By Andrew P. Napolitano

In this Dec. 11, 2018, photo the parents of Yariza Flores, 11, show where the girl cut her torso as she landed on barbed wire while crossing the border illegally, after arriving from an immigration detention center to a shelter in San Diego. Since late October 2016, the U.S. has been releasing asylum-seeking families with little time to arrange travel, which it blames on lack of detention space. To avoid putting penniless families on the streets, charities and advocacy groups from California to Texas are scrambling to provide shelter, food, clothes and help buying bus and plane tickets. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Asylum seekers find it’s catch and can’t release fast enough

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018, file photo, a man passes a Mexican migrant baby to her mother after they jump the border fence to get to the U.S. side to San Diego, from Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, File)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump and the disputed border crisis

By CALVIN WOODWARD and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks to the media during a tour of the World Trade International Bridge at the U.S. Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, Thursday, July 23, 2015. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Donald Trump vow to have Mexico pay for border wall backfires

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times