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In this June 28, 2018 photo, Salvadoran deportees arriving from McAllen, Texas, listen to instructions from an immigration officer at La Chacra Immigration Center in San Salvador, El Salvador. Very few gang members try to get into the United States. In fiscal year 2017, the U.S. Border Patrol carried out 310,531 detentions of people who were in the U.S. illegally, but only 0.09 percent of them belonged to the gangs operating in Central America, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

Voters say both Dems, President Trump exploiting immigration

The public seems fed up with both President Trump and congressional Democrats when it comes to immigration, according to a new Quinnipiac University Poll Tuesday that shows both sides are seen to be exploiting the issue for political gain.

July 3, 2018
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it had tried to deport Luis Rodrigo Perez after he was arrested on domestic violence charges in Middlesex County, New Jersey, last year. (Associated Press/File)

Asylum seekers must be considered for parole, judge rules

A federal judge punched another hole in the Trump administration's get-tough approach to asylum-seekers Monday, ruling that the government must consider granting them parole to be released into the U.S. while their cases are being heard.

July 2, 2018
Activists have placed signs on the doors of the Department of Justice to protest immigration policy. (Associated Press)

Immigration activists condemn ICE, family detention

Far from settling the family separation issue, President Trump's executive order last month has only solidified the battle lines, with his administration saying it is left with no choice but to keep entire families detained and Democrats and liberal activists saying no illegal immigrants should be detained at all.

July 1, 2018
Eric Conn gestures as he invokes his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Conn had help in carrying out the escape plot he hatched a year before fleeing, according to a federal indictment. The indictment, released Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, alleges that an employee of Conn, the missing lawyer, opened a bank account that Conn used to transfer money out of the country. It also claims that the employee, Curtis Lee Wyatt, tested security at the U.S-Mexico border at Conn's direction, and purchased a pickup truck for use in Conn's escape in early June. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Social Security fraud henchman nets 7-month sentence

Curtis Wyatt, who served as henchman and enforcer for the man who ran the largest Social Security fraud in U.S. history, was sentenced Friday to seven months in jail for part of his role in the scam.

June 29, 2018
Attorney General Jefferson Sessions' four new Justice Department grant solicitations will give preference to jurisdictions that are more open to immigration cooperation. (Associated Press/File)

Sanctuary cities pressured with Justice grant programs

The Justice Department broadened its effort to rein in sanctuary cities Thursday, announcing new conditions on four grant programs designed to pressure localities to provide information and access to federal immigration authorities.

June 28, 2018
First lady Melania Trump talks with Rodolfo Karisch, Chief Patrol Agent, Tucson Sector Border Patrol, as she visits a U.S. Customs border and protection facility in Tucson, Ariz., Thursday, June 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Melania Trump shocked by smugglers’ cruelty during border visit

First lady Melania Trump, visiting Arizona to get another firsthand look at the immigration situation, was told that the government is doing all it can for the children and families streaming across the border, including rescuing them from danger and providing them top-notch care.

June 28, 2018
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy speaks to faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania law school, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Anthony Kennedy retirement ends tenure as nation’s decider-in-chief

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who announced his retirement Wednesday, has been the decider-in-chief on most of the major controversial cases to rise to the Supreme Court ever since 2006, which is when the court's balance shifted to him, after Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement.

June 27, 2018