The next president of Mexico will face ongoing economic and migration challenges and will have to tackle increasing drug cartel violence brought about by the fracturing of existing transnational criminal organizations and corruption at every level of government, security and border experts say.
Two men are in federal custody after at least one of them drove an SUV carrying unauthorized migrants without stopping at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 25 near Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Without much fanfare last week, Mexico's Institute of Migration, INM, set up a camp in the mountains about 65 east of the San Diego-Tijuana region, where members of Mexico's National Guard will be housed.
An estimated 300 people gathered at Larsen Field, a city park less than a mile from the U.S.-Mexico border, for a "Take Our Border Back' rally Saturday morning.
Greg Abbott and 14 fellow Republican governors are scheduled to come to the border on Sunday to get a briefing on Texas' border security initiative and address the Biden administration's border policies.