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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen listens to President Donald Trump address members of the media before Trump signs an executive order to end family separations at the border, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

DHS blames DACA for feeding surge of illegal-immigrant families

The Trump administration for the first time connected the Obama-era DACA program to the surge of children and families on the border, in new court documents filed Friday laying out in more expansive detail why the courts should invalidate DACA.

June 23, 2018
People gather at Saint Mark Catholic Church for a solidarity with migrants vigil, Thursday, June 21, 2018 in El Paso, Texas. President Donald Trump's order ending the policy of separating immigrant families at the border leaves a host of unanswered questions, including what happens to the more than 2,300 children already taken from their parents and where the government will house all the newly detained migrants in a system already bursting at the seams. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Stories of family separation

One illegal immigrant mother from Guatemala says that during the phone calls she's had with her son, he cries for most of the time.

June 22, 2018
"Democrats have taken a walk on this thing," said House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican. (Associated Press)

House Republicans cancel immigration votes

Staring at a certain defeat, House Republicans canceled votes on their immigration compromise Thursday -- an embarrassing setback for leaders who'd thought they'd finally been able to wrangle some unanimity on an issue that's bedeviled them for years.

June 21, 2018
The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Associated Press)

House defeats first GOP immigration bill

The House defeated the first of two GOP immigration bills Thursday, rejecting an enforcement-heavy approached favored by conservatives that would have mixed a narrow legalization for "Dreamers" with a major boost in border and interior enforcement.

June 21, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, June 21, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump: Democrats ‘don’t care about the children’

Democrats are exploiting illegal immigrant children for their own political purposes, President Trump asserted Thursday, seemingly preparing the country for the failure of a number of GOP immigration bills on Capitol Hill.

June 21, 2018

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June 21, 2018
First lady Melania Trump speaks at a roundtable at Upbring New Hope Children Center run by the Lutheran Social Services of the South in McAllen, Texas, Thursday, June 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Melania Trump makes surprise visit to detention facility in Texas

First lady Melania Trump made a surprise visit Thursday to a shelter for illegal immigrant children in Texas amid the furor over President Trump's rescinded family separation policy, expressing her desire to see the children reunited with their parents "as quickly as possible."

June 21, 2018
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., listens during questioning of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz during a joint House Committee on the Judiciary and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing examining Horowitz's report of the FBI's Clinton email probe, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 19, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

House immigration bills will fail: Conservatives

House conservatives said Thursday that both immigration bills up for votes later in the day are doomed to defeat, blaming party leaders for failing to put their effort behind enforcement-heavy legislation.

June 21, 2018
In this 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, Sunday, June 17, 2018. More than 2,300 minors have been separated from their parents since April, when the Trump administration launched its "zero-tolerance" policy that called for prosecuting illegal immigrants and taking their children away. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP)

Border focus shifts to 2,300 kids already taken from parents

Having convinced President Trump to reverse separation of most illegal immigrant parents from children at the border, Democrats in Congress now say he must quickly reunite the more than 2,300 children who were taken during the six weeks the practice was in place.

June 21, 2018