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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., call on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to bring the Democrats' HR-1 "For the People Act" to the floor for a vote, during an event on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Nancy Pelosi uses coronavirus crisis to push liberal wishlist

The coronavirus crisis has given Democrats a chance to advance key parts of their liberal agenda, with coronavirus sanctuaries for illegal immigrants and government-covered testing and health care for those who suspect they are infected.

March 10, 2020
President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he boards Air Force One during departure, Friday, March 6, 2020, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The President is traveling to Tennessee to view the tornado damage. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House Democrats to investigate Trump deals with Central America

House Democrats announced Friday they've launched an investigation into the State Department's role in striking deals with Central American countries that have helped stem illegal immigration, saying the agreements might violate U.S. law.

March 6, 2020
In this Nov. 12, 2019, file photo, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, left, stands with other federal and officials at a news conference at the office of the Bernalillo County Sheriff in Albuquerque, N.M. (AP Photo/Mary Hudetz, File)

DOJ approves plan to collect DNA from arrested illegal immigrants

The Trump administration finalized a new policy Friday that paves the way for Homeland Security to collect DNA from all illegal immigrants the department arrests, fulfilling the terms of a 2005 law that the government has been evading for years.

March 6, 2020
A border patrol officer fails to arrest a migrant running after jumping the United States border fence to San Diego, from Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves into border patrol agents. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

ICE tackles deportation backlog as illegal immigration arrests plunge

Illegal immigration across the southwestern border is down so much that the Department of Homeland Security is deporting more people each month than it captures coming across, officials announced Thursday, meaning they are now able to eat into the backlog of cases that built up during last year's surge.

March 5, 2020
FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2013, file photo a Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, better known as WIC, bag sits in a shopping cart in Jackson, Miss. As the new public charge rule taking effect Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, has approached, droves of immigrants including citizens and legal residents have dropped government social services they or their children may be entitled to out of fear they will be kicked out of the U.S. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Public charge welfare rule affects few immigrants

Only a small fraction of would-be immigrants will be affected by the administration's new "public charge" rule, according to an analysis Thursday that undercuts some of the vehement criticism from immigrant-rights activists.

March 5, 2020
In this June 17, 2018, file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas. Records obtained by The Associated Press highlight some of the problems that plague government facilities for immigrant youth. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP) ** FILE **

HHS ignored warnings over border family separations: Audit

The Trump administration's 2018 zero-tolerance border policy that led to the separation of families caught the Department of Health and Human Services by surprise, with top leaders only learning about it from the media, an internal audit revealed Thursday.

March 5, 2020
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's officers are shown in this July 2019 file photo. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Immigration reversal as deportations top border arrests

Illegal immigration across the southwestern border is down so much that Homeland Security is now deporting more people each month than it captures coming across, officials announced Thursday, saying they're now able to eat into the backlog of cases that built up during last year's surge.

March 5, 2020
In this May 17, 2016, file photo, ballots are prepared for counting at Multnomah County election headquarters in Portland, Ore. Federal officials are working to bolster defenses on the state and even county levels against interference in the 2020 elections, running scenarios where things go awry in the run-up to the vote. In Oregon, officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency carried out a tabletop exercise with county and state elections officials last week. (AP Photo/Don Ryan) **FILE**

Feds warn of foreign meddling ahead of Super Tuesday primaries

The heads of the FBI, Homeland Security, Justice Department, State Department and the intelligence community issued an extraordinary alert Monday warning of foreign meddling in elections, just as millions of voters prepare to vote in the Super Tuesday primaries.

March 2, 2020