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Bright yellow blooms carpet the ground, a sharp contrast to the imposing steel bollards of the border wall topped with rolls of razor wire as members of the California's Baja Rare conservation project lead a botanical expedition with botanists and citizen scientists to document native plants along the U.S.- Mexico border on Friday, April 19, 2024, in the Ejido Jacume in the Tecate Municipality of Baja Calif., Mexico. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Botanists scouring U.S.-Mexico border to document forgotten ecosystem split by giant wall

By Julie Watson - Associated Press

Mexican National Guards patrol among the lanes of cars entering the San Ysidro Port of Entry in Tijuana, Mexico, May 11, 2023. Montserrat Caballero, the mayor of the Mexican border city of Tijuana, said on June 12, 2023, that she has decided to go live at an army base for her own safety, after she received threats. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Drug lords go on killing spree to hunt down corrupt officers who stole shipment in Mexico’s Tijuana

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

A family pushes a snack cart past a slab of the Berlin Wall, displayed near the border wall that separates the United States from Mexico, in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits between a bullring, a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into the Pacific Ocean. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Berlin Wall relic gets a ‘second life’ on U.S.-Mexico border as Biden adds barriers

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Mexican National Guards patrol among the lanes of cars entering the San Ysidro Port of Entry in Tijuana, Mexico, May 11, 2023. Montserrat Caballero, the mayor of the Mexican border city of Tijuana, said on June 12, 2023, that she has decided to go live at an army base for her own safety, after she received threats. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Tijuana mayor to live in Mexican army barracks for protection

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

People waiting to apply for asylum camp near the pedestrian entrance to the San Isidro Port of Entry, linking Tijuana, Mexico with San Diego, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Tijuana, Mexico. U.S. authorities raised the number of people allowed to enter the country with an online app allows asylum-seekers to enter the country with appointments to 1,250 a day from 1,000 though demand still far outstrips supply. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

U.S. expands slots for asylum app at land crossings as demand overwhelms supply

By VAlerie Gonzalez and Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Venezuelan migrants rest inside their tents on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Sunday, May 14, 2023. As the U.S. ended its pandemic-era immigration restrictions, migrants are adapting to new asylum rules and legal pathways meant to discourage illegal crossings. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Border crossings are off from last week’s highs as U.S. pins hopes for order on mobile app

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

A young migrant holding swimming inner tubes stands on the Mexican-side of the Rio Grande river, from where migrants swim across to the U.S. side, in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Pandemic-related U.S. asylum restrictions, known as Title 42, are to expire May 11. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Some scenes from the US-Mexico border, where immigration rules are set to change

By Anita Snow - Associated Press

A young migrant stands by a fence at an entry point for asylum seekers Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, in Tijuana, Mexico. Thousands of migrants gathered along the Mexican side of the southern border Wednesday, camping outside or packing into shelters as they waited for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether and when to lift pandemic-era restrictions that have prevented many from seeking asylum. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Mexico draws more asylum-seekers despite grisly violence

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Gustavo Banda, center right, pastor of Templo Embajadores de Jesus, Tijuana's largest migrant shelter, speaks with migrants at a shelter, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, in Tijuana, Mexico. The Biden administration's policy shift on Venezuelan migrants may pose an enormous challenge to overstretched Mexican shelters. The U.S. has coupled plans to let up to 24,000 Venezuelans apply online to fly to the U.S. for temporary stays with a pledge to immediately turn back Venezuelans who cross the border illegally from Mexico. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

U.S. shift on Venezuelan migrants fuels anxiety in Mexico

By Elliot Spagat and Maria Verza - Associated Press

A Mexican soldier patrols the international border bridge that connects Del Rio, Texas and Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, after its partial reopening, Sept. 25, 2021. A federal judge in Louisiana has on Wednesday, April, 27, 2022, ordered the Biden administration to stop phasing out a public health rule that allows the expulsion of migrants without an opportunity to seek asylum. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)

Mexican border cities hit by burning vehicles, blockades

By Jorge Lebrija - Associated Press

A smuggler paddles a small inflatable raft across the Rio Grande from Mexico into the U.S. carrying migrant families in Roma, Texas, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) ** FILE **

Dollars over danger: Inside the mind of a smuggler

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Amid border surge, confusion reigns over Biden policies

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Honduran boys whose family wants to seek asylum in the U.S., play on the sidewalk in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Thousands of people are waiting to claim asylum and more come each day, falsely believing they will be able to enter the U.S. now that former President Donald Trump is out of office. While President Joe Biden has taken some major steps in his first weeks in office to reverse Trump's hardline immigration policies, his administration hasn't lifted some of the most significant barriers to asylum-seekers. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

Biden faces pressure as US sets new course on immigration

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and BEN FOX - Associated Press

Border Patrol agent Justin Castrejon looks toward where the border wall makes its way over a mountain Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, near Tecate, Calif. President Donald Trump’s reshaping of U.S. immigration policy may be most felt in his undoing of asylum. Castrejon says migrants pay $8,000 to $10,000 to be guided through the mountains and picked up by a driver once they reach a road. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Migrants quickly expelled by Trump try repeatedly to cross

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Border Patrol agent Justin Castrejon looks toward where the border wall makes its way over a mountain Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, near Tecate, Calif. President Donald Trump’s reshaping of U.S. immigration policy may be most felt in his undoing of asylum. Castrejon says migrants pay $8,000 to $10,000 to be guided through the mountains and picked up by a driver once they reach a road. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Migrants quickly expelled by Trump try repeatedly to cross

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Andrew Wheeler, administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, front, speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, in San Diego. The U.S. government announced work has begun to stop a decades-old problem of millions of gallons of sewage from Tijuana, Mexico, flowing into the United States and polluting the waves where Southern California meets the border. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Work starts to stop sewage flows into California from Mexico

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

Cars wait in line to enter the United States at San Diego's San Ysidro border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat) **FILE**

US crackdown on nonessential border travel causes long waits

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

In this May 5, 2020 photo, workers in full protection gear as a precaution against the new coronavirus, unload a coffin that contain the remains of a person who died from the new coronavirus, in an area of the municipal cemetery set apart for victims of COVID-19, in Tijuana, Mexico. Citing a threat of the virus from Mexico, the Trump administration has banned hundreds of thousands of people from crossing the southern border with emergency measures that prohibit nonessential traffic and reject asylum seekers without a hearing. (AP Photo/Joebeth Terriquez)

In Mexican border cities, many fear virus is coming from US

By JORGE LEBRIJA and MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

Couple arrested in cross-border kidnapping that left 2 dead

Associated Press

In this photo released Tuesday, March 31, 2020, by the San Diego Tunnel Task Force, Department of Homeland Security, a large haul of drugs that were seized in a cross-border tunnel running from warehouses in Tijuana, Mexico to San Diego are displayed in San Diego. (San Diego Tunnel Task Force/Department of Homeland Security via AP)

US finds major cross-border tunnel used to smuggle drugs

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press