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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.

U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, says he’s not surprised at reports that nine out of 10 people coming across the border illegally are getting released into the country as soon as they claim asylum.

Mexico has increased immigration enforcement in recent weeks. U.S. officials say that has contributed to a sharp drop in illegal border crossings. The actions taken by Mexico include forcing migrants off freight trains, sending deportation flights to Venezuela and flying and busing migrants to the southern part of Mexico.

Migrants from several countries abducted from a bus and held by armed men for days near Mexico’s border with Texas were released by their captors, not rescued as initially reported by authorities, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday.

A failed smuggling attempt in Deming, New Mexico, led border agents to an El Paso hotel housing 39 undocumented migrants.

Migrants are arriving in the U.S. under the Biden administration’s new “safe mobility offices,” set up in Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Ecuador. The idea is to streamline the U.S. refugee process so migrants don’t give up and pay smugglers to make the journey north.