From a distance, the mound at Soğmatar looks like a natural hill. Up close, archaeologists agree it isn’t. It’s an artificial structure built layer by layer over thousands of years.

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ICE and Border Patrol close sophisticated La Nueva Empresa cartel tunnel under Rio Grande connecting Juárez to El Paso.

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ICE’s new “processing centers,” like the one it is eyeing in a massive warehouse in east Orlando, would each hold up to 1,500 ...