Mexican officials clear border tent camp as US pressure mounts to stem migrant influx

Mexican immigration officials are clearing out a migrant encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande as U.S. pressure mounts to limit a surge of migrants reaching the border. Mexico are removing tents, both occupied and unoccupied, from the encampment in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas. The operation using bulldozers and workers with machetes continued Wednesday as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico City. Mexico says its priority in the talks with the U.S. is to reopen border crossings temporarily closed by the United States.