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Mexican police break up 3 wildcat blockades at border plants

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2019 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives a press conference in Mexico City. Lopez Obrador said Thursday, Feb. 28, that wages should rise “but we shouldn’t create an atmosphere of labor instability.” He is now trying to close the Pandora’s box of wage demands he helped unleash when he doubled the minimum wage in border areas. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Mexican president urges reason in wage demands

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives a press conference in Mexico City, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. Mexico’s new president issued an emotional appeal to his countrymen to help battle against fuel thefts, as long lines spread to gas stations in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s president, unleashes labor unrest at border plants

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 21, 2017 file photo, workers gather outside a &quot;maquiladora&quot; for car accessories in Matamoros, Mexico. A mass strike at 48 “maquiladora” plants in Matamoros that broke out in mid-January of 2019, is heading for victory, bringing pay raises for laborers who make less than $1 an hour assembling auto components and TV sets for export to the United States. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Mexican president unleashes labor unrest at border plants

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

FILE- In this Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018, file photo immigrants seeking asylum in the United States walk off of the the International Bridge in Reynosa, Mexico. Asylum seekers already camping at border crossings worry that how the Trump administration responds to the caravan of some 4,000 Central American migrants and three much smaller ones hundreds of miles behind it could leave them shut out. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Migrants camped at border worry caravans will shut them out

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

Mexico judge rules arrest of alleged cartel boss was illegal

By MARK STEVENSON - Associated Press

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agent peers out of the open door of a helicopter during a patrol flight near the Texas-Mexico border. (AP Photo)

Jason Chaffetz, Blake Farenthold assess Mexico border security after drug cartel attack on border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This undated handout photo provided by Nohemi Gonzalez, shows Erica Maria Alvarado Rivera at her mother's home in Progreso, Texas. According to witnesses armed men took Erica Maria Alvarado Rivera, 26, and her brothers, Alex, 22, and Jose Angel, 21, on Oct. 13 in El Control, a small town near the Texas border west of Matamoros. The three were visiting their father in Mexico and they have not been seen since. (AP Photo)

Mexico police questioned in killing of 3 Americans

By Christopher Sherman - Associated Press