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![An altar with candles and photos covers the fence outside the Mexican immigration detention center that was the site of a deadly fire, as migrants wake up after spending the night on the sidewalk in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, March 30, 2023.]()
Fact check: Trump, Biden blamed for fire that killed 39 migrantsSays one expert: "In way, you could blame all three: Trump, Biden and the Mexican authorities almost equally."By Maria Ramirez Uribe
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![U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, center, has been leading Republican opposition to an immigration bill from U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, that would require the federal government to detain asylum seekers while their claims are being decided.]()
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![A large âWelcome to Mexicoâ sign hung over the Bridge of the Americas is visible as President Joe Biden, second from left, talks with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers as he tours El Paso port of entry, Bridge of the Americas, a busy port of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, in El Paso Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)]()
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![Hameed ul Haq having a video call with his wife, Hareem Salman, who lives in Pakistan waiting for her visa, at 6 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in College Station. Haq just came home after taking care of his hospitalized father, who had a stroke a week before.]()
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![Photographer Mario Sandoval takes photographs of a townhome for sale Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, in Houston. The owners of the listing were originally from China. Realtor Kenneth Li, back, talked about the impacts of the proposed SB-147 that would ban people and companies from China, Iran, North Korea and Russian from buying real estate in Texas.]()
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![United States Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) listens during a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., U.S. on Thursday, March 25, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/CNP/Zuma Press/TNS)]()
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![People, mostly recently arriving Cubans, lining up to sign up for federal benefits at YMCA International Services Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, in Houston. Hundreds of Cubans are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and coming to Houston-area refugee resettlement agencies for help starting new lives in this region. Houston historically has not been a destination for Cuban immigrants.]()
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![U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, right, wants the federal government to turn away asylum seekers at the border if the Department of Homeland Security is incapable of detaining them for the duration of the processing of their claims. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, left, says Royâs bill would mean many are turned away, even if they have rightful asylum claims and fear for their lives.]()
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![Stinger, a member of Constitutional Patriots New Mexico Border Ops Team militia is pictured on patrol at the US-Mexico border near Mt. Christo Rey in Sunland Park, New Mexico on March 20, 2019. - The militia members say they will patrol the US-Mexico border near Mt. Christo Rey, "Until the wall is built." In recent months, thousands of Central Americans have arrived in Mexico in several caravans in the hope of finding a better life in the United States. US President Donald Trump has branded such migrants a threat to national security, demanding billions of dollars from Congress to build a wall on the southern US border. (Photo by Paul Ratje / AFP)PAUL RATJE/AFP/Getty Images]()
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![President Joe Biden walks with U.S. Border Patrol agents along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)]()
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![President Joe Biden walks with U.S. Border Patrol agents along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)]()
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![A Cuban soldier stands guard next to "Big Baby," a U.S. vessel loaded with Cuban refugees headed from Mariel Harbor, Cuba to Key West in April 1980.]()
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![Catalina Nava, right, is hugged by Marlen Tejeda, after she took the oath of allegiance to become a United States citizen during a naturalization ceremony Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, at the M. O. Campbell Educational Center in Houston. Nava, originally from Mexico, was one of almost 1800 people who became citizens during the ceremony. Tejeda runs a non-profit in Conroe that helps people prepare for the naturalization process.]()
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![One of the two proposed redistricting plans.]()
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![Migrants eat and wait for help while camping on a street in downtown El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. Texas border cities were preparing Sunday for a surge of as many as 5,000 new migrants a day across the U.S.-Mexico border as pandemic-era immigration restrictions expire this week, setting in motion plans for providing emergency housing, food and other essentials. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)]()
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![Seen here is a vehicle that belongs to the Starr County Crime Victim’s Center reportedly used to transport people in the country illegally to the Houston area. Bernice Annette Garza, the former Starr County District Attorney crime victims coordinator, is facing federal charges for her alleged involvement in transporting undocumented people using a government vehicle.]()
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![Teenage migrant girls are loaded into vans to be transported out of the National Association of Christian Churches facility, on Saturday, April 17, 2021, in Houston. A facility in Houston that housed girls who crossed U.S. border unaccompanied is being closed and the girls immediately moved, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Saturday.(Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle via AP)]()
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![Athulya Rajakumar is pictured in her neighborhood in Aubrey, Texas on Wednesday, December 14, 2022. Rajakumar is a "Documented Dreamer" who may have to self-deport after living most of her life in America because of the green card backlog for Indians in the US. CREDIT: Louis DeLuca for The Houston Chronicle]()
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![Venezuelan migrants walk across the Rio Bravo towards the United States border to surrender to the border patrol, from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Oct. 13, 2022. President Joe Biden last week invoked a Trump-era rule known as Title 42, which Biden's own Justice Department is fighting in court, to deny Venezuelans fleeing their crisis-torn country the chance to request asylum at the border. The rule, first invoked by Trump in 2020, uses emergency public health authority to allow the United States to keep migrants from seeking asylum at the border, based on the need to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)]()
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![Iranian soccer fans react to the team not equalizing in the final stoppage time while watching the broadcast of the U.S. v.s. Iran World Cup game Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, at Ranosh Cafe in Houston. Iran lost to the U.S. 1-0 and was eliminated from the tournament.]()
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![10/27/1992 - Vietnamese refugee Tri Van Dang displays snapshots of himself as a South Vietnamese Army officer. Dang fought alongside the U.S. Army, was left behind when the Americans pulled out and spent seven years in a Vietnamese re-education camp. Dang is among the third and last wave of refugees from Vietnam, following the deluge of boat people after the 1975 fall of Saigon and the U.S.-sponsored immigration of Amerasians and their families.]()
