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Donald Trump tells the Republican National Convention he will "end the illegal immigration crisis" by closing the border and finishing the wall. SOUNDBITE
Republican lawmakers pass an immigration package that would restart stalled construction of Donald Trump's southern border wall as the United States braces for a sudden increase in migrant crossings from Mexico. The Secure the Border Act of 2023, which advanced from the Republican-led House of Representatives on a roughly party-line 219-213 vote, would reintroduce several signature Trump-era measures, from completing the wall to bolstering asylum restrictions. IMAGES
Former top Trump strategist Steve Bannon exits Manhattan Federal Court after he was arrested and charged along with three others for defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors in a Mexico border wall fundraising campaign. IMAGES
A makeshift migrant camp looks nearly empty in Mexico's Matamoros, at the border with Brownsville, Texas, where Democrat US President Joe Biden is expected to meet border patrol and other law enforcement agents. Also heading to the border is Republican former president Donald Trump, who will be about 300 miles (480 kilometers) to the west in Eagle Pass. The Texas showdown comes at a time when record numbers of migrant crossings into the United States are posing a threat to Biden's chances of preventing a Trump comeback in November's presidential election. IMAGES
Peruvian police officers in the capital Lima board a plane bound for the northern border with Ecuador, after Peru put the border under a state of emergency following the security crisis that erupted in the neighboring country. Ecuador's president has given orders to "neutralize" criminal gangs after gunmen stormed and opened fire in a TV studio, as bandits threatened random executions on a second day of terror in the country. IMAGES
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