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In this July 10, 2019, photo, Juan Carlos Perla carries his youngest son, Joshua Mateo Perla, as the family leaves their home in Tijuana, Mexico, for an asylum hearing in San Diego. They were among the first sent back to Mexico under a Trump administration policy that dramatically reshaped the scene at the U.S.-Mexico border by returning migrants to Mexico to wait out their U.S. asylum process. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

US finds ally in Mexico as asylum policy marks first year

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

A covered access point leading to a smuggling tunnel is seen on the U.S side of the border wall in San Diego, Calif. on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat) ** FILE **

Authorities find longest Southwest border smuggling tunnel

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

In this Nov. 10, 2019, photo, migrants gather at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, to hear names called from a waiting list to claim asylum in the U.S. The U.S. has sent a Honduran migrant back to Guatemala in a move that marked a new phase of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

Tougher US asylum policy follows in Europe’s footsteps

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Mexico pledges to fight cross-border sewage spills

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Central American migrants wait to see if their number will be called to cross the border and apply for asylum in the United States, at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. Dozens of immigrants lined up Friday at a major Tijuana border crossing waiting to learn how the Trump administration's radical new restrictions on who qualifies for asylum would affect the tens of thousands of migrants stuck on the Mexican border seeking refuge.(AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

Trump official says asylum changes will drive down backlog

By COLLEEN LONG and ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

In this July 28, 2019, photo, Cameroonians wait in a rented apartment in Tijuana, Mexico, until their names are called to claim asylum in the U.S. The Cameroonian men who share 10 mattresses on the floor of a third-floor apartment above a barber shop walk every morning to the busiest U.S. border crossing with Mexico, hoping against all odds that it will be their lucky day to claim asylum. Their unlikely bet is that a sympathetic Mexican official will somehow find a spot for them. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

In Mexico, thousands more names added to border wait lists

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Mexico border state extends governor’s term amid criticism

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FILE - In this July 4, 2019 file photo, a group of asylum seekers cross the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Thursday, July 4, 2019. (Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP)

Trump’s new asylum rules go into effect, and opponents sue

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and CEDAR ATTANASIO - Associated Press

In this June 13, 2019 photo, a migrant woman sleeps on a cot inside the Portland Exposition Building in Portland, Maine. Maine's largest city has repurposed the basketball arena as an emergency shelter in anticipation of hundreds of asylum seekers who are headed to the state from the U.S. southern border. Most are arriving from Congo and Angola. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Record number of African migrants coming to Mexican border

By ANDREW SELSKY and PATRICK WHITTLE - Associated Press

A migrant plays with his little girl as they wait to be attended to apply for asylum in the United States, at the border in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, June 9, 2019. The mechanism that allows the U.S. to send migrants seeking asylum back to Mexico to await resolution of their process has been running in Tijuana since January. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Migrants seeking U.S. asylum undaunted by Trump-Mexico deal

By Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador receives the applause of the crowd during a rally in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, June 8, 2019. Mexican President Andres Lopez Obrador held the rally in Tijuana even as President Trump has put on hold his plan to begin imposing tariffs on Mexico on Monday, saying the U.S. ally will take "strong measures" to reduce the flow of Central American migrants into the United States. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico celebrate deal in Tijuana rally

By Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

Lilia Lara, a Tijuana resident, displays the U.S. and Mexican flags at the plaza where Mexican President Andres Lopez Obrador is to hold a rally in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, June 8, 2019. President Trump has put on hold his plan to begin imposing tariffs on Mexico on Monday, saying the U.S. ally will take &quot;strong measures&quot; to reduce the flow of Central American migrants into the United States. Lara said she arrived early to get a good spot for the rally. (AP Photo/ Hans-Maximo Musielik)

Mexico: Country has ‘dignity intact’ after US tariff deal

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - 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

In this March 5, 2019, image, Ruth Aracely Monroy, center, looks out of the family's tent alongside her 10-month-old son, Joshua, as her husband, Juan Carlos Perla, left, passes inside a shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico. After fleeing violence in El Salvador and requesting asylum in the United States, the family was returned to Tijuana to await their hearing in San Diego. They were one of the first families to contend with a new policy that makes asylum seekers stay in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Asylum seeker abandons US plans in face of new policy

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 30, 2018 file photo, America Ferrera, left, with Alicia Keys, attends a protest against the Trump administration's approach to illegal border crossings and separation of children from immigrant parents in Lafayette Square across from the White House in Washington. After paying a weekend visit to Central Americans stuck on the Mexican side of the border with the United States, Ferrera said Sunday, March 10, 2019, that she was enjoying first-time motherhood last June when images of migrant children being separated from their parents by U.S. officials began to emerge. She has led a small group of like-minded artists on a visit to migrants waiting in the Mexican border city of Tijuana for a chance to apply for asylum in the U.S. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Hollywood actresses seek truth at Tijuana migrant shelters

By AMY GUTHRIE - Associated Press

In this Feb. 8, 2019 photo, 17-year-old Honduran migrant Josue Mejia Lucero, left, smokes along with his girlfriend's sister Xiomara Henriquez Ayala, 13, outside the Agape World Mission shelter in Tijuana, Mexico. Xiomara and her sister Milagro are part of an untold number of Central American youths who traveled with a migrant caravan that crossed Mexico and landed in this crime-riddled city in November. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel)

AP PHOTOS: Teens struggle alone in Mexico after caravan

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FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2019 file photo a Border Patrol agent walks towards prototypes for a border wall in San Diego. The Trump administration on Wednesday, Feb. 27 plans to demolish eight prototypes of the president's prized border wall that the government built near San Diego one year ago. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull,File)

Amid clouds of dust, border wall prototypes are demolished

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

In this Jan. 16, 2019, image, Yuli Arias, left, stands near a newly-replaced section of the border wall as her mother, Esther Arias, center, stands in the family's house that was once threatened by construction along the border in Tijuana, Mexico. The U.S. faces a delicate dance as it charts a course to extend or replace border barriers near homes and structures. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

New U.S.-Mexico border barrier charts tricky course near homes

By Elliott Spagat - Associated Press

Carlos Catarldo Gomez, of Honduras, center, is escorted by Mexican officials after leaving the United States, the first person returned to Mexico to wait for his asylum trial date, in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. The Trump administration has launched an effort to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts despite mixed signals from Mexico on key issues. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Asylum seekers to wait in Mexico under new Trump administration plan

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Carlos Catarldo Gomez, of Honduras, center, is escorted by Mexican officials after leaving the United States, the first person returned to Mexico to wait for his asylum trial date, in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. The Trump administration has launched an effort to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts despite mixed signals from Mexico on key issues. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

US launches plan for asylum seekers to wait in Mexico

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press