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US President Joe Biden institutes a broad asylum ban on migrants illegally crossing the Mexico–United States border, with actions to deport or turn people back to Mexico, with exceptions for unaccompanied children, people with serious medical or safety threats, and victims of trafficking.
2024-06-5

Governor of Texas Greg Abbott authorizes the United States National Guard to return migrants along the Mexico–United States border in Texas to Mexico.
2022-07-7

Mexico begins the second phase of its vaccination programme for people over the age of 60 against COVID-19 in more than 300 municipalities.
2021-02-15

One Marine is killed and one Sailor and seven additional Marines went missing when their Amphibious Assault Vehicle sinks near San Clemente Island off the coast of Southern California. They were from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, San Diego County. This is the third major AAV accident involving Camp Pendleton Marines since 2011.
2020-07-30

The Spanish Audiencia Nacional reveals that an attack on the North Korean embassy in Madrid on February 22 was led by a Mexican citizen residing in the United States who later offered the FBI data stolen during the incident.
2019-03-26

The wife of a former US Marine and Iraq War veteran whose family publicly pleaded for President Donald Trump to intervene is deported to Mexico.
2018-08-3

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake hits the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The epicenter was 11 kilometers (7 miles) from the town of Tres Picos, not far from the Pacific coast. There are no immediate reports of major damage or injuries.
2015-12-17

More than forty bodies are found in a mass grave in Mexico's Tamaulipas state.
2011-04-6

Monarch butterfly colonies in Mexico more than double in size after bad storms reduced their numbers a year ago.
2011-02-14

The United States deploys troops along its border with Mexico by the order of President Barack Obama.
2010-08-18