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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

Mark Green, GOP congressman, to force vote on Michael Cohen perjury probe

The House will vote Wednesday on a resolution referring former Trump lawyer-turned-nemesis Michael Cohen to the Justice Department for a perjury investigation.

April 30, 2019

Pentagon approves 320 troops for illegal immigrant babysitting duties

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has approved a Homeland Security request to assign 320 "personnel" to babysit illegal immigrants, driving them, feeding them and checking on their welfare, the Pentagon announced Monday.

April 29, 2019

‘Fake families’ surge at border, looking to exploit U.S. immigration law

The number of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally who fraudulently posed as families with juvenile children at the border has soared, authorities reported Monday, saying they have opened about 100 investigations and found more than 25 suspected cases in April alone.

April 29, 2019

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

Thomas Walter Gillen pleads guilty to role in Charlottesville clashes

Federal prosecutors won a guilty plea Monday from yet another white supremacist stemming from the August 2017 riot in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Justice Department announced.

April 29, 2019

Chuck Grassley tells Trump to cancel tariffs or lose U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal

The Senate's senior Republican issued an ultimatum to President Trump on Sunday, saying either he cancels his trade-war tariffs or else he can forget about getting his U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal through Congress.

April 29, 2019

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

Massachusetts judge charged with obstruction after helping illegal immigrant escape ICE

Federal prosecutors announced charges Thursday against a Massachusetts judge who assisted an illegal immigrant in escaping from her courtroom, according to court documents, thwarting the deportation officer who had been waiting to pick him up.

April 25, 2019

Smugglers abandon 3-year-old illegal immigrant in Texas

A group of illegal immigrants abandoned a 3-year-old boy in a Texas cornfield, the Border Patrol said Wednesday, leaving the child to fend for himself as the other migrants tried to escape arrest.

April 24, 2019

Visa overstays outstrip border jumpers as biggest source of illegal immigration: Study

Some 5.5 million immigrants this century came to the U.S. legally but overstayed their visas, according to a new report Wednesday that suggests President Trump's focus on the border may be missing a massive part of the immigration problem.

April 24, 2019

DOJ to resist House subpoena on census citizenship controversy

The Justice Department said Wednesday it will thwart a subpoena for one of its top officials to testify about the citizenship census question, saying House Democrats are trying to undermine the Executive Branch's powers.

April 24, 2019

American schools produce 100,000 illegal immigrant ‘Dreamers’ a year

American high schools are churning out nearly 100,000 illegal immigrant "Dreamers" a year, according to a new study Wednesday that shows just how extensive the network of illegal immigrant families is in the U.S.

April 24, 2019

Border Patrol announces 5% bonus to keep agents on the job

President Trump renewed his anger at Mexico on Wednesday, reviving his threat to shut down parts of the border unless America's southern neighbor does more to stop a migrant caravan.

April 24, 2019

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won’t submit voter roll documents to House oversight committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is waging a new legal battle against Democrats in Washington, refusing to turn over documents to a House committee trying to investigate his state's efforts to kick noncitizens off its voter rolls.

April 23, 2019

Justice Sotomayor: Hispanics have ‘rational fear’ of Trump administration citizenship question

Hispanics have "legitimate fear" of the administration and its quest to query Americans about their citizenship on the 2020 Census, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Tuesday, as the Supreme Court debated whether President Trump has the power to add the question back into the decennial count.

April 23, 2019

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

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

Democrats refuse offer of less-redacted Mueller report

Democrats said Friday they will refuse to look at the "less-redacted" version of the special counsel's report the Justice Department has offered them.

April 19, 2019

Florida man arrested for making threatening calls to Democrat lawmakers

Police charged a Florida man this week with making threatening phone calls to several Democratic members of Congress, in each case complaining about freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar.

April 19, 2019