Republican Maya Flores shared the shocking graphic images of a badly bloodied federal agent after an alleged altercation with an uncooperative migrant near McAllen, Texas.
'This is the type of violence that is being exerted on Border Patrol Agents by those who don't want to be apprehended,' the former official wrote, some six months after leaving her post this past January.
In Central Mexico, AP video showed a non-passenger freighter arriving on the outskirts of the central city of Irapuato spurring a mad scramble from the thousands-strong procession waiting for its arrival.
Seen sleeping alongside the tracks in anticipation of the convoy, the mostly Venezuelan crowd proceed to board the train's metal trailers with ease, with several tossing up bags and handing up their small children swaddled in winter coats.