Border Patrol vehicles survey a steel fence at the Southwest border with Mexico at Sunland Park, N.M., Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)

Forensic anthropologist Heather Edgar with the Office of the Medical Investigator poses for a portrait outside her office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Forensic anthropologist Heather Edgar with the Office of the Medical Investigator poses for a portrait outside her office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

A surveillance helicopter traces a line in the sky above the Southwest border with Mexico at Sunland Park, N.M., Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)

Forensic anthropologist Heather Edgar with the Office of the Medical Investigator poses for a portrait outside her office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

This Oct. 3, 2024 image shows the Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where experts work to identify scores of presumed migrants whose remains have been found along the border in southern New Mexico. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)