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Mexican border officials are aiding U.S. border agents by helping them “meter” the number of migrants who can apply for asylum each day.

Central American migrants with a caravan of 7,000 to 10,000 members are admitting once again that they are not asylum-seekers, but rather economic migrants looking for jobs in the United States.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visited the southern Texan border on Wednesday to bolster troops deployed to support border agents trying to prevent caravans of migrants from illegally crossing.

Tesla’s latest Elon Musk vanity project, an alcoholic beverage called “Teslaquila,” is now facing issues with Mexico’s Tequila Regulatory Council.

The Bishop of Ciudad Juarez urged the faithful Sunday to tear down the walls that have been built against migrants, exhorting them to lend their full support to migrants.

Republican congressional candidate Diane Harkey spoke to Breitbart News on Sunday, relaying a Mexico-based friend’s account of the heavily male makeup of the migrant caravan.

The top official for national security in Mexico believes there is a connection between the thousands of migrants from Central America and elsewhere heading through Mexico to the U.S. border and the November 6 midterm elections.

“No nation can allow itself to be overwhelmed by uncontrolled masses of people rushing their border,” Trump said.

President Donald Trump highlighted Wednesday the violence in the migrant caravan traveling to the southern border of the United States.

The U.S. commander overseeing the military’s response to the migrant caravan said the caravan was unlike anything officials have seen before.

The Mexican ambassador to the U.S. described some of the migrants traveling through that country to the U.S. as “very violent.”

“This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!” Trump warned on Twitter.

Preliminary data released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) over the summer suggest the rate of drug overdose deaths is declining or at least has “begun to plateau,” as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar put it last week.

A Mexican newspaper is reporting that a group of women looking for lost children has joined the migrant caravan marching through Mexico.

“To those in the Caravan, turn around,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “We are not letting people into the United States illegally.”

The United Nations Refugee Agency has 45 people in Mexico helping some 7,000 people who are marching from Central America to the U.S. border.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that the United States would turn back the 7,000-person caravan of migrants from Central America when they reach the United States’ border with Mexico.

Fox News on Monday hyped an interview with open borders advocate and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, in which he lectured concerned Americans about a 7,000-strong migrant caravan headed to the United States-Mexico border. 

Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday revealed Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández told him that the migrant caravan marching toward the U.S.-Mexico border is “financed by Venezuela.”

Homeland Security Spokesperson Katie Waldman said Mexican cartels yield $2.5 billion per year by smuggling people into America at a rate of about $5,000 per person.

Migrants traveling with the 7,000-strong caravan headed to the U.S.-Mexico border to overwhelm the country’s asylum and immigration system are admitting that they are merely foreign workers looking for jobs.

Multiple Chinese government media outlets used their opinion pages Sunday and Monday to attack Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for warning Latin American countries to stay away from Beijing’s predatory loan offers, calling American concerns “malicious nonsense.”

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Willa has grown into a potentially catastrophic Category 5 storm on a track toward the Mexican coast south of Mazatlan.

Trump says U.S. will begin “cutting off, or substantially reducing” aid to Central America over a migrant caravan marching toward the southern border.

The president announced the news after the caravan that originated in Honduras swarmed over the southern Mexico border over the weekend, increasing to 7,000 people.

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, offered four recommendations to President Donald Trump and his administration on how to solve the border crisis caused by the stream of migrant caravans seeking entry into the U.S. via Mexico.

“You listen to the fake news back there and you think they’re all wonderful people, right?” he asked.

“People are saying there is a lot of money being passed around so that this would normally hit just before the election,” Trump said.

Joe Arpaio, the former Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona suggested the deployment of the U.S. military deep inside Mexico to stop the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants from reaching the U.S.

President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to send the military to block the migrant caravan heading for the United States border.

The Dark Wire’s eye-opening new documentary, Not in Vein, illustrates how Mexican drug cartels utilize the porous border with America to their advantage, making billions of dollars and killing Americans at record rates in the process. The documentary provides a powerful testimonial to securing the southern border to combat the opioid crisis.

Immigration expert Jessica Vaughan advised Donald Trump to pressure Mexico against allowing entry to migrant caravans travelling to the U.S.

Former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper says the freshly negotiated USMCA is a “pretty good deal” for the U.S.

Hoosier businessman Mike Braun slammed Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) in a press release on Monday for outsourcing jobs to Mexico ahead of a Monday Indiana Senate debate.

Critics say the differences between NAFTA and USMCA are so slight as to make the effort to renegotiate the trade pact “unnecessarily painful.”