ATOTONILCO DE TULA, Mexico — When Dayana Castro heard that the U.S. asylum appointment she waited over a year for was canceled in an instant, she had no doubt: She was heading north any way she could.

President Donald Trump’s plans to seal the U.S.-Mexico border and conduct mass deportations might soon run into a major roadblock: Mexico and the countries where the immigrants come from might not accept some of them back.

Mexico has agreed to expand support to other Latin American and Caribbean nations as part of a regional migratory response.

Workers handled beef in Avellaneda in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. People cooled off in Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro.

Querétaro, selected to host this infrastructure, has established itself as a key industrial and logistics hub in Mexico. In recent years, the state has attracted global technology companies, including Google, which recently opened its third "cloud region" in Latin America in that location.

Mexico's annual inflation rate slowed to its lowest level in almost four years in the first half of January, official data showed on Thursday, a price level likely to encourage the central bank to keep cutting borrowing costs.

Several chafed at his plans as President Trump enacted immigration measures affecting their countries and vowed to impose tariffs on Mexico and Canada.

In the early hours of his second presidential term, Donald Trump is signing numerous executive orders to resurrect his “Remain in Mexico” policy, suspend refugee resettlements and end a parole program that enabled migrants from Latin America and Haiti to pursue legal entry to the U.S.

China has strengthened trade with Latin America at the expense of the U.S. But Donald Trump, who threatens to raise tariffs on Mexico, could upend those ties.

Peter Chernin's The North Road Company has bought Perro Azul, the Mexican production giant, with an eye towards expanding into Latin America.

Mexico was a challenging market for Halliburton in the fourth quarter, the oilfield services contractor acknowledged Wednesday in its quarterly earnings report.