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In this Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, photo, restraints lie on the tarmac as personal belongings of immigrants who entered the United States illegally are loaded onto a plane for a deportation flight to El Salvador by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston. An obscure division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates hundreds of flights each year to remove immigrants. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) **FILE**

ICE reveal: 1.2 million illegal immigrants awaiting deportation

ICE is currently monitoring nearly 1.2 million illegal immigrants who've been ordered deported but have not yet left the U.S. -- and nearly all of them are still free in the community, the agency told a federal court this week, revealing the monumental task of policing them all.

February 12, 2021
Migrants, many of whom were returned to Mexico under the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policy, wait in line to get a meal in an encampment near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, Aug. 30, 2019. The Biden administration on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, announced plans for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico for their next immigration court hearings to be released in the United States while their cases proceed. (AP Photo/Veronica G. Cardenas, File) **FILE**

DHS will admit 25,000 migrants waiting in Mexico

Homeland Security will allow tens of thousands of migrants who'd been mired for months in Mexico into the U.S. starting at the end of this week, erasing a Trump-era policy and sparking new worries over risks of coronavirus infections.

February 12, 2021
President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with lawmakers on investments in infrastructure, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Federal deficit pegged at $2.3 trillion this year: CBO

Even after the coronavirus pandemic is behind it, the federal government will run massive deficits for the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday, underscoring the deep fiscal hole facing President Biden even before his new round of COVID-19 spending.

February 11, 2021
Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., right, listens as President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with lawmakers on investments in infrastructure, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden rescinds national emergency declaration at U.S.-Mexico border

President Biden on Thursday officially informed Congress that he has revoked the previous administration's national emergency declaration for the border, recapturing Pentagon money that President Trump had diverted toward border wall construction.

February 11, 2021
This June 21, 2013, photo, shows the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) **FILE**

VA doctors harvested liver tissue from sick vets without consent: OSC

Doctors on a Veterans Affairs research project harvested liver tissue from sick veterans without their consent, breaking the department's own rules and placing the patients themselves "at serious risk," the government's top whistleblower watchdog agency said in a report to President Biden this week.

February 10, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris listens as President Joe Biden speaks about the economy in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

CBO: $15 minimum wage would lose 1.4 million jobs

Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would lift nearly 1 million people out of poverty but would leave even more people without any job at all, the Congressional Budget Office said in a new analysis Monday that deals another blow to President Biden's demand for a wage hike in the next coronavirus relief bill.

February 8, 2021
Then-acting Deputy Secretary of the Homeland Security Department Ken Cuccinelli signed the agreements in the final weeks of the Trump administration. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Memo: Biden Homeland Security Department to cancel agreements made under Trump

The Biden Homeland Security Department has concluded that at least eight agreements signed by the Trump administration giving states a stake in federal immigration enforcement are "void, not binding and unenforceable," and is moving to cancel them as quickly as possible, according to a memo seen by The Washington Times.

February 7, 2021
In this image from Senate TV, Vice President Kamala Harris sits in the chair on the Senate floor to cast the tie-breaking vote, her first, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021 at the Capitol in Washington. The Senate early Friday approved a budget resolution that paves the way for fast-track passage of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan without support from Republicans. (Senate TV via AP)

House gives final OK to budget

House Democrats gave final approval Friday to a new federal budget for fiscal year 2021, moving with striking speed on a version that cleared the Senate just hours earlier.

February 5, 2021
In this July 31, 2019, file photo, migrants return to Mexico, using the Puerta Mexico bridge that crosses the Rio Grande river in Matamoros, Mexico, on the border with Brownsville, Texas. A federal judge on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, barred the U.S. government from enforcing a 100-day deportation moratorium that is a key immigration priority of President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel, File)

Memo details DHS strategy to cancel cooperation deals with states

The Biden Homeland Security Department has concluded that eight agreements signed by the Trump administration giving states and localities a stake in federal immigration enforcement are "void, not binding and unenforceable," and is moving to cancel them as quickly as possible, according to a memo seen by The Washington Times.

February 5, 2021