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Migrants sit under a sign marking the Panama-Colombia border during their trek across the Darien Gap, May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Migrants planning to start walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S. gather at the trailhead camp in Acandi, Colombia, May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Haitian migrants wade through water as they cross the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S., May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Migrants walk across the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S., May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

A Venezuelan migrant laughs as she jokes with her husband, who gave her a few flowers he picked in the grass, as they wait along the rail lines in hopes of boarding a freight train heading north in Huehuetoca, Mexico, Sept. 20, 2023 (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Migrants, mainly from Central America, who were traveling to the U.S. inside a tractor-trailer, are detained by Mexican immigration agents and National Guard members, in Veracruz, Mexico, July 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Migrants travel inside train cars of a northbound freight train, in Irapuato, Mexico, Sept. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A Venezuelan migrant stands covered in a wrap while texting, on the banks of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Migrants who crossed into the U.S. from Mexico pass under concertina wire along the Rio Grande river, Sept. 21, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum, May 12, 2023, in San Diego. Hundreds of migrants remain waiting between the two walls, many for days. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Migrants cross the Rio Bravo on an inflatable mattress into the United States from Matamoros, Mexico, on May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano

A group of migrants sleep in a makeshift campsite as they wait to apply for asylum after crossing the border, May 10, 2023, near Jacumba, Calif. The group had been camping just across the border for days, waiting to apply for asylum in the United States. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Migrants cross the Rio Grande river into the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

A woman carries her child after she and other migrants crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Venezuelan migrants wave a U.S. flag at a television helicopter that flew over the Rio Grande, in Matamoros, Mexico, May 12, 2023, a day after pandemic-related asylum restrictions called Title 42 were lifted. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)