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An axolotl swims in an aquarium at a museum in Xochimilco Ecological Park in Mexico City, Feb. 11, 2025. Trees surround a lake at Xochimilco Ecological Park in Mexico City, Feb. 11, 2025. A figure of an axolotl sits on display at a museum in Xochimilco Ecological Park in Mexico City, Feb. 11, 2025.

A plane carrying migrants from Central Asia and India who were deported from the United States arrives at Juan Santamaria International Airport in San Jose, Costa Rica, Feb. 20, 2025. Security personnel approach a plane carrying migrants from Central Asia and India who were deported from the United States at Juan Santamaria International Airport in San Jose, Costa Rica, Feb. 20, 2025.

Migrants deported from the United States wave to the press from inside a hotel in Panama City, Feb. 19, 2025.

FILE - Members of the MS-13 cartel wait to board a bus to be transferred from the Chalatenango penitentiary, in Chalatenango, El Salvador, Dec. 27, 2019.

FILE - Pope Francis presides over a mass for the jubilee of the armed forces in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Feb. 9, 2025.

FILE - In this photo released by U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins conducts joint operations with Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Vancouver during routine operations in the Taiwan Strait, Oct. 20, 2024. (Trevor Hale/U.S. Navy via AP)

FILE - The Canadian and US flags are displayed on lampposts March 22, 2023, near Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario.

FILE - Migrants from Haiti stand in line outside the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid government office to apply for asylum in Mexico City, Jan. 28, 2025. FILE - Migrants wait outside the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid government office to apply for asylum in Mexico City, Jan. 28, 2025.

FILE - Colombian Migration employees work during a day of Temporary Protection Permit deliveries organized by Colombian Migration at the Sports Palace in Bogota, Colombia, Sept. 1, 2023.

Migrants, mostly Venezuelans, are transported aboard a bus from Mexico's National Institute of Migration (INM) after being expelled from the United States through the Jeronimo-Santa Teresa border crossing in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Jan. 24, 2025.

Electoral workers count ballots at the National Electoral Council during the presidential and parliamentary election in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Feb. 9, 2025. This combination of pictures created on Feb.9, 2025, shows Ecuador's President and presidential candidate Daniel Noboa and candidate Luisa Gonzalez showing their ballots after voting Feb. 9.

A voter casts her ballot during the presidential election in Quito, Ecuador, Feb. 9, 2025. President Daniel Noboa, who is running for reelection, holds up his ballot before voting in the presidential election in Olon, Ecuador, Feb. 9, 2025.

FILE - Crates filled with avocados are seen at a packing warehouse in Ziracuaretiro, Michoacan, Oct. 2, 2019.

FILE - In this April 17, 2019, photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

Mexican National Guard members patrol along the Mexico-US border in Ciudad Juarez, Feb. 5, 2025.

FILE - Kenyan police officers arrive at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as part of a peace-keeping mission to tackle violence in Haiti, Jan. 18, 2025.

FILE - A Panama Canal worker sweeps a red carpet after it rained moments before the arrival of China's President Xi Jinping and Panama's President Juan Carlos Varela, where they will post for an official photo at Cocoli Locks inside the Panama Canal in Panama City, Dec. 3, 2018.

FILE - Aerial view of trucks queueing next to the border wall before crossing to the United States at Otay commercial port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, Jan. 22, 2025.

FILE - A line of trucks wait to cross the Bluewater Bridge border crossing between Sarnia, Ontario and Port Huron, Michigan, Jan. 29, 2025. FILE - Aerial view of the U.S. Ford factory cars in Cuautitlan Izcalli, Mexico state, Mexico, taken on Jan. 30, 2025. FILE - A drone view shows trucks waiting in line at the Zaragoza-Ysleta border crossing bridge to cross into the US, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Nov. 26, 2024.

FILE - Venezuelan political leader Juan Pablo Guanipa is pictured in Caracas, Nov. 10, 2022.