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Marines patrol during work to fortify the border structure that separates Tijuana, Mexico, behind, and San Diego, near the San Ysidro Port of Entry, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, in San Diego. The military along the California border with Mexico worked Friday to fortify the border structure, including adding concertina wire to the tops of the rusting wall of corrugated metal. The military is expected to have the vast majority of the more than 7,000 troops planned for the border-wide mission deployed by Monday, and that number could grow. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

U.S. ‘hardening’ Tijuana border crossing ahead of migrant caravan

By Maria Verza - Associated Press

Children laugh while watching the show of priest Antonio Aceves, 37, who is also a magician known as Tonio, at the Benito Juarez Auditorium that is being used as a migrant shelter, in Guadalajara, Mexico, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018. Several thousand Central American migrants marked a month on the road Monday as they hitched rides toward the western Mexico city of Guadalajara. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

US hardens border at Tijuana to prepare for migrant caravan

By MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

Central American migrants run from Mexican authorities during clashes on a border bridge that connects Guatemala and Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018. A new group of migrants, who called themselves a second caravan, gathered on a bridge after forcing their way through a gate at the Guatemalan end. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

2nd group of migrants enters Mexico as main caravan resumes

By SANTIAGO BILLY and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

In this Oct. 23, 2018 image, a woman hands over her documents as her number is called to cross the border and request asylum in the United States, in Tijuana, Mexico. The first obstacle that migrants in a giant caravan may face if they reach the U.S. border is a long wait in Mexico. To enter through San Diego, the wait in Mexico is a month or longer. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Long odds and slow lines await migrant caravan at US border

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2018 file photo provided by Prensa Club Dorados de Sinaloa, Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona walks through the airport in Culiacan, Mexico. Maradona, the soccer world's poster child for the perils of substance abuse, is setting up camp to lead a team in the heart of Mexico's drug cartel land. (Prensa Club Dorados de Sinaloa via AP, File)

Maradona to coach soccer club in Mexico’s cartel heartland

By CARLOS RODRIGUEZ and AMY GUTHRIE - Associated Press

In this Monday, June 4, 2018 photo, people seeking political asylum in the United States line up to be interviewed in Tijuana, Mexico, just across the U.S. border south of San Diego. The Trump administration's fighting words for asylum seekers don't appear to be having much impact at U.S. border crossings with Mexico. Lines keep growing, so much that U.S. authorities can't take them all at once. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

Undeterred by Trump, asylum-seekers line up at the border

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Migrants walk to the place where they will be meeting with immigration lawyers, seeking to enter the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, April 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik)

‘Caravan’ asylum-seekers to test Trump immigration rhetoric at San Diego border crossing

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Children have their breakfast at the &quot;Vina de Tijuana AC&quot; migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, April 28, 2018. As the migrants prepare to walk to the &quot;Casa del Tunel&quot; to get legal advice from U.S. immigration lawyers, they are telling Central Americans in a caravan of asylum-seekers they may be separated from their children and detained for many months. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik)

The Latest: Some caravan of asylum seekers waiting at border

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Migrants have their breakfast at the &quot;Vina de Tijuana AC&quot; migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, April 28, 2018. As the migrants prepare to walk to the &quot;Casa del Tunel&quot; to get legal advice from U.S. immigration lawyers, they are telling Central Americans in a caravan of asylum-seekers they may be separated from their children and detained for many months. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik)

Central Americans will seek asylum at southern US border

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Migrants have their breakfast at the &quot;Vina de Tijuana AC&quot; migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, April 28, 2018. As the migrants prepare to walk to the &quot;Casa del Tunel&quot; to get legal advice from U.S. immigration lawyers, they are telling Central Americans in a caravan of asylum-seekers they may be separated from their children and detained for many months. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik)

Asylum-seekers in Mexico snub warnings of stern US response

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

A woman and child, who are part of a caravan of Central American asylum-seekers, wait on a bus in Mexicali, Mexico, Thursday, April 26, 2018, that will transport them to Tijuana to join up with about 175 others who already arrived. Lawyers planned free workshops on the U.S. immigration system on Friday and Saturday as many planned to seek asylum starting Sunday at San Diego's San Ysidro border crossing, the nation's busiest. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik)

Migrant ‘caravan’ gathers on US-Mexico border

By GERARDO CARRILLO and ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

A father and his son await tutorship by immigration lawyers in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, April 27, 2018. Close to to 200 migrants from Central America, mostly from Honduras, arrived in Tijuana seeking to enter the United States. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik)

Central American asylum seekers get legal aid near US border

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

A mother dresses her child at the Alfa &amp; Omega migrant shelter in Mexicali, Mexico, Thursday, April 26, 2018, as they travel north with a caravan of Central American migrants. The caravans have been a fairly common tactic for years among advocacy groups to bring attention to Central American citizens seeking asylum in the U.S. to escape political persecution or criminal threats from gangs. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik)

Migrant ‘caravan’ gathers on US-Mexico border for final push

By GERARDO CARRILLO and ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Temporary tents for about 130 Central Americans, mostly women and children, who arrived at the U.S. border with Mexico in a &quot;caravan&quot; of asylum-seeking immigrants that has drawn the fury of President Donald Trump, are seen in a shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesday, April 24, 2018. Two busloads arrived late Tuesday, in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, and another 200 were expected to come. Legal workshops are planned later this week and the first large group is expected to try to enter the United States on Sunday at a border crossing in San Diego. in San Diego, Calif. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

Central American asylum seeking caravan reaches US border

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Lauren Rees holds up a sign during a rally against a upcoming scheduled visit by President Donald Trump Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in San Diego. Protesters chanted, “No ban! No wall!” near the San Ysidro border crossing, where tens of thousands of people enter the U.S. daily from Tijuana, Mexico, many on their way to work or school in San Diego. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)

Trump’s visit to California sparks protests, rallies

By JULIE WATSON and ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by Hector Barajas-Varela, director and founder of the Deported Veterans Support House, based in Tijuana, Mexico, shows former U.S. Marine Marco Chavez, who was deported to Mexico 15 years ago after he was convicted of a minor offense. Chavez has won his fight to return to the United States. Chavez has told The Associated Press on Monday, Dec. 18, 2017 that he was looking forward to reuniting with his three sons in Iowa after missing their childhoods. He is now 45 and they range in age from 17 to 21. (Hector Barajas-Varela via AP)

Deported ex-Marine speechless after return to US

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by Hector Barajas-Varela, director and founder of the Deported Veterans Support House, based in Tijuana, Mexico, shows former U.S. Marine Marco Chavez, who was deported to Mexico 15 years ago after he was convicted of a minor offense. Chavez has won his fight to return to the United States. Chavez has told The Associated Press on Monday, Dec. 18, 2017 that he was looking forward to reuniting with his three sons in Iowa after missing their childhoods. He is now 45 and they range in age from 17 to 21. (Hector Barajas-Varela via AP)

Deported ex-Marine wins case to return to US from Mexico

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, file photo, heavy machinery and construction crews works on California's Interstate 5 on the first day of a 57-hour closure of all Mexico-bound car traffic at the San Ysidro border crossing in San Diego, Calif. U.S. officials reopened the freeway lanes to Tijuana, Mexico early Monday, Sept. 25, at the U.S. border crossing ahead of schedule after a weekend shutdown for work on a $741 million expansion project. California Department of Transportation spokeswoman Caridad Sanchez said traffic began flowing again just after midnight. It connects San Diego to Tijuana. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat, File)

Busy US-Mexico border crossing reopens ahead of schedule

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Mexico border crossing to reopen 12 hours ahead of schedule

Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, photo, a woman walks towards the border on a pedestrian bridge over construction on a new curve along California's Interstate 5, as it approaches the border with Tijuana, Mexico, in San Diego. The San Diego to Tijuana border crossing, busiest border crossing in the United States will close this weekend to the more than 40,000 cars that pass through it daily to Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Closure at busy US-Mexico border crossing promises headaches

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press