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Articles by Stephen Dinan

President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable on immigration and border security at the U.S. Border Patrol Calexico Station in Calexico, Calif., Friday April 5, 2019. Trump headed to the border with Mexico to make a renewed push for border security as a central campaign issue for his 2020 re-election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump to demand more money for border

House Democrats unveiled new legislation Tuesday designed to stymie President Trump's wall building national emergency plans, attaching the provisions to the annual veterans affairs funding bill.

April 30, 2019
Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan speaks during a news conference announcing a plan to file a federal lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Monday, April 29, 2019, in Boston, over its policy of arresting people at courthouses on civil immigration matters. The announcement comes days after federal prosecutors charged a judge and former court officer in Newton, Mass., with obstruction of justice for allegedly helping a man wanted by federal immigration authorities escape a courthouse. (AP Photo/Alanna Durkin Richer)

Prosecutors sue to kick ICE out of courthouses

Several Massachusetts district attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Monday demanding a judge order ICE to stop enforcing the law at state courthouses, saying too many people are refusing to be witnesses or show up for cases because they fear being deported.

April 29, 2019
In this Aug. 2, 2017, file photo, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) **FILE**

Stephen Miller under investigation by House Democrats

House Democratic chairmen said Thursday they'll investigate whether senior presidential adviser Stephen Miller orchestrated the resignations of several Homeland Security officials, as the White House rejected lawmakers' invitation for the immigration hard-liner to testify about President Trump's policies.

April 25, 2019
Central American migrants climb into the back of a tractor trailer as a thousands strong caravan makes its way north hoping to reach the U.S. border, between Pijijiapan and Tonala, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Many migrants said they felt safer traveling and sleeping with several thousand strangers in unknown towns than hiring a smuggler or trying to make the trip alone.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Illegal immigrants pay billions each year to smugglers

The Rand Corp. is releasing a report Monday putting a dollar amount on at least some of that traffic. It estimates that Central American migrants paid as much as $2.3 billion to be smuggled into the U.S. in 2017.

April 22, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a campaign rally Wednesday, April 17, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Elizabeth Warren joins push for Trump impeachment

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday became the first major 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to urge her party to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump in the wake of the special counsel's newly released report.

April 19, 2019