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Fred Haines of Wichita, Kansas, was the victim of elaborate financial schemes a decade ago and is still paying on the debt he incurred. (Travis Heying /The Wichita Eagle via AP)

Feds take on Nigerian internet fraud, freeze assets of six scammers

The Treasury Department said Tuesday it has frozen the assets of six Nigerians responsible for massive internet scams, including defrauding businesses and running romance schemes that prey on the most vulnerable Americans, bilking them of their savings.

June 16, 2020
In this April 14, 2017, photo, protesters rally outside a courthouse in San Francisco. U.S. Judge William Orrick struck down an immigration law Friday, Oct. 5, 2018, that the Trump administration has used to go after cities and states that limit cooperation with immigration officials. (AP Photo/Haven Daley) **FILE**

Supreme Court declines to hear Trump challenge to California sanctuary law

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the administration's challenge to California's main sanctuary city law protecting immigrants who are in the country illegally, dealing a significant blow to President Trump's hopes of forcing jurisdictions to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

June 15, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden speaks during a roundtable on economic reopening with community members, Thursday, June 11, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Libertarian nominee says Trump, Biden both tainted on race

Libertarian presidential nominee Jo Jorgensen said Friday that President Trump and likely Democratic opponent Joseph R. Biden are both too tainted to lead the country through this moment in racial tension, and urged voters to look beyond those men to her own candidacy.

June 12, 2020
In this Oct. 5, 2019, file photo, migrants seeking asylum wait in line with their case paperwork during a weekly trip by volunteers, lawyers, paralegals and interpreters to the migrant campsite outside El Puente Nuevo in Matamoros, Mexico. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald via AP, File)

Trump administration proposes major asylum overhaul

The Trump administration proposed a major rewrite of the asylum system Wednesday curtailing the types of dangers that can qualify for protections and effectively barring those who fear domestic abuse or gang violence from getting asylum.

June 10, 2020

ICE offers coronavirus testing to detainees at two facilities

ICE announced Wednesday that it has offered coronavirus testing all detainees at two of its holding facilities, as the agency moves to head off more court-ordered releases and improve its knowledge of COVID-19 within the detained migrant population.

June 10, 2020
Ranking Member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 9, 2020, to examine COVID-19 fraud, focusing on law enforcement's response to those exploiting the pandemic. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Dianne Feinstein: Coronavirus unemployment program ‘riddled with fraud’

Financial institutions have already detected $500 million in bogus coronavirus unemployment benefit claims from overseas fraudsters, officials revealed to Congress on Tuesday, saying the scammers use databases of stolen personal identifying information and file jobless claims in the names of unsuspecting Americans.

June 9, 2020
This July 25, 2018, file photo shows a vial of ketamine, which is normally stored in a locked cabinet, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

CBP nabs ketamine smuggled in pictures of Jesus Christ

God may absolve us of our sins, but Jesus cannot hide them from Customs and Border Protection officers, who announced Tuesday they sniffed out a 9-pound shipment of ketamine someone tried to smuggle into the U.S. inside framed images of the Christ.

June 9, 2020
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz testifies at a Senate committee on FISA investigation hearing, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Immigration courts chief dinged for faulty budget projections

The Justice Department's inspector dinged the head of the immigration court system Tuesday for sending two warning emails to staff last year about looming budget cuts, saying he got it wrong and didn't "effectively" communicate with his own budget folks.

June 9, 2020
In this Aug. 2, 2019, file photo, migrants return to Mexico as other migrants line up on their way to request asylum in the U.S., at the foot of the Puerta Mexico bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, that crosses into Brownsville, Texas. (AP Photo/Emilio Espejel, File)

Trump Mexico pressure stopped on asylum seekers at border

The U.S. had just witnessed the worst month on record for illegal immigrant parents and children streaming across the southern border in May 2019, and an irate President Trump took to Twitter demanding Mexico do something about it -- or else face crippling tariffs.

June 8, 2020
In this July 2, 2018, file photo, protesters display a sign that reads "Abolish ICE" during a rally in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in downtown Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Abolish ICE movement storms back amid defund police push

Anti-ICE protesters assaulted an immigration detention facility in California over the weekend, smashing windows and vandalizing vehicles, reviving the "Abolish ICE" movement that was, in many ways, the precursor to the current "Defund Police" effort.

June 8, 2020
The U.S. Capitol dome is seen, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Coronavirus-fueled deficit nears $2 trillion for 2020

Uncle Sam has added $1.2 trillion to the budget deficit over the last two months, according to the latest numbers Monday that detail how the government has used cash to try to combat the coronavirus pandemic and its economic catastrophe.

June 8, 2020