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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
In this July 10, 2019, photo, Juan Carlos Perla, passes a sign leading to the border as he travels with his family from their home in Tijuana, Mexico, for an asylum hearing in San Diego. The Perlas are faring better than most of the roughly 60,000 asylum-seekers returned to Mexico under a Trump administration policy, many of whom live in fear of being robbed, assaulted, raped or killed. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Appeals court blocks Trump’s ‘remain in Mexico’ policy

A federal appeals court Friday blocked President Trump's "remain in Mexico" policy, ruling it went beyond the boundaries of federal law -- and eliminating the most important tool Homeland Security used to stem last year's border surge.

February 28, 2020
U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement officer makes an arrest. (Associated Press file photo)

Luis Estrada-Alvarez tries to head-butt ICE officer: Feds

A Mexican illegal immigrant who'd repeatedly snuck back into the U.S. head-butted an ICE officer who was attempting to arrest him, federal prosecutors in New York said Thursday, announcing charges against the man.

February 27, 2020
Children from Anapra, Mexico, climb a section of the new border wall recently built near Santa Teresa, N.M., Monday, April 9, 2018. The head of the U.S. Border Patrol sector that includes part of West Texas and all of New Mexico said Monday he met with leaders of the New Mexico National Guard to begin discussions about what will be required and their capabilities. (Ruben R. Ramirez/The El Paso Times via AP)

Border chief: Wall cuts illegal crossings 80%

A 20-mile section of new border wall built near El Paso, Texas, cut illegal crossings by more than 80%, the government's top border official told Congress on Thursday.

February 27, 2020