Cattle graze near the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Ariz., on Sept. 16, 2025. As of 2022, approximately 11 million people lived in the United States illegally, according to government figures. And this figure may have risen since then to as many as 14 million, according to the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute. Undocumented workers paid $97 billion in taxes in 2022 alone, according to Americans for Tax Fairness. Figures from 2024 from the US Labor Department said nearly half of the foreign-born workforce in America is Latino. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty ImagesCattle graze near the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Ariz., on Sept. 16, 2025. As of 2022, approximately 11 million people lived in the United States illegally, according to government figures. And this figure may have risen since then to as many as 14 million, according to the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute. Undocumented workers paid $97 billion in taxes in 2022 alone, according to Americans for Tax Fairness. Figures from 2024 from the US Labor Department said nearly half of the foreign-born workforce in America is Latino. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on June 3 that a three-week-old calf in Zavala County, Texas, near the Mexican border, had been infected by the New World screwworm.

Two days later, a second case of the flesh-eating New World screwworm was detected in a one-month-old calf in the same county, according to the department, just 5.6 miles away from the location of the first confirmed case.

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