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Holding a Border Patrol-issued plastic bag containing her belongings, Mexican migrant Ana Ruiz, right, wipes her tears while talking to a family member at the San Juan Bosco migrant shelter in Nogales, Mexico, Tuesday, June 25, 2024, after she was deported back to her homeland from the U.S. The asylum halt, which took effect June 5 and has led a 40% decline in arrests for illegal crossings, applies to all nationalities but falls hardest on nationalities most susceptible to deportation _ specifically, Mexicans and those that Mexico agrees to take back. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Biden’s asylum halt is falling hardest on Mexicans and other nationalities Mexico will take

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George Alan Kelly listens to closing arguments in Santa Cruz County Superior Court, Thursday, April 18, 2024 in Nogales, Ariz. Kelly was charged with second-degree murder in the January 2023 death of 48-year-old Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, who lived south of the border in Nogales, Mexico. (Angela Gervasi/Nogales International, via AP, Pool)

Jury weighs case against Arizona rancher in migrant killing

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Wildfires burn parts of a cemetery in Nogales, Mexico, Monday, March 25, 2024. Emergency crews are working to contain wildfires burning across parts of the High Mountains area in Veracruz state. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Forest fires burn in nearly half of Mexico’s drought-stricken states, fueled by strong winds

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A woman walks past two out-of-business clothing stores located steps away from the U.S.-Mexico border on March 15, 2021 in Nogales, Ariz. The economic wear from nearly 12 months of a partially shut border is easy to spot in downtown Nogales. Bargain clothing stores, money exchanges, secondhand shops and retailers selling plastic knickknacks within walking distance of the border stand closed and many storefronts are boarded up. (AP Photo/Suman Naishadham)

US businesses near border struggle with boundaries’ closure

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM and LISA RATHKE - Associated Press

Arizona county border sheriff considered himself a diplomat

By RAFAEL CARRANZA - Associated Press

In this Feb. 26, 2019 photo, migrants rest in the chapel of the San Juan Bosco migrant shelter, in Nogales, Mexico. For years, Catholic-led, U-S.-based nonprofits have been at the forefront of efforts to support migrants and asylum seekers along the Mexican border. Tough new border policies, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, have drastically changed their work, much of which now takes place in Mexico. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Pandemic, border crackdown hamper Catholics’ aid to migrants

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2019, file photo, migrants who are applying for asylum in the United States go through a processing area at a new tent courtroom at the Migration Protection Protocols Immigration Hearing Facility, in Laredo, Texas. The U.S. government on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, began sending asylum-seekers back to Nogales, Mexico, to await court hearings that will be scheduled roughly 350 miles away in Juarez, Mexico. Authorities are expanding a program known as Remain in Mexico that requires tens of thousands of asylum seekers to wait out their immigration court hearings in Mexico. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

US starts sending asylum seekers across Arizona border

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Another drug tunnel discovered along US-Mexico border

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Today in Arizona History

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2 more bodies recovered from Nogales Wash after storms

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FILE - This June 1, 2009 file photo shows vehicles waiting to enter the U.S. through The Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in downtown Nogales, Ariz. The mayor of Nogales says a port of entry on the U.S.-Mexico border is temporarily closed after a customs officer shot and killed a southbound driver who refused to stop Thursday night, Feb. 7, 2019. (Mark Henle/The Arizona Republic via AP, File)

The Latest: Officials say man shot at border is alive

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In this Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019 photo, U.S. Army troops place additional concertina wire to the border fence on a hillside above Nelson Street in downtown Nogales, Ariz. Nogales, Mexico is seen at right. The small Arizona border city is fighting back against the installation of razor fencing that now covers the entirety of a tall border fence along the city's downtown area. The city of Nogales, which sits on the border with Nogales, Mexico, is contemplating a proclamation Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, condemning the use of concertina wire in its town. (Jonathan Clark/Nogales International via AP)

Latest: Border officials explain added wire to Nogales wall

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In this Monday, Feb. 4, 2019 photo, a school bus rolls past the concertina wire-covered fence at East International and Nelson Streets in downtown Nogales, Ariz. The small Arizona border city is fighting back against the installation of razor fencing that now covers the entirety of a tall border fence along the city's downtown area. The city of Nogales, which sits on the border with Nogales, Mexico, is contemplating a proclamation Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, condemning the use of concertina wire in its town. (Jonathan Clark/Nogales International via AP)

Arizona city officials want border wall’s razor wire removed

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Border Patrol: Incomplete border tunnel found in Nogales

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A Customs and Border Patrol agent patrols the international border Tuesday, April 10, 2018 in Nogales, Ariz. The Republican governors of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico on Monday committed 1,600 Guard members to the border, giving President Donald Trump many of the troops he requested to fight what he's called a crisis of migrant crossings and crime. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Border tunnel discovered in Nogales, Arizona

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Body of second drowned man north of Arizona-Mexico border

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Mexico catches Sinaloa drug cartel operator in Nogales

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The Latest: Nogales police officer shot by carjacker dies

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Mistrial declared for border agent charged with killing teen

By ANITA SNOW and JACQUES BILLEAUD - Associated Press

Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz, left, makes his way to the U.S. District Court building in downtown Tucson, Ariz., where opening arguments were scheduled to begin in his murder trial. Closing arguments are expected in Tucson, Ariz., this week in the trial of Swartz, charged in the 2012 fatal shooting 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez across the Mexican border. (Ron Medvescek/Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)

Mistrial for Lonnie Swartz charged with murder in cross-border shooting of rock-thrower

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