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File - In this April 29, 2018 file photo, a member of the Central American migrant caravan, holding a child, looks through the border wall toward a group of people gathered on the U.S. side, as he stands on the beach where the border wall ends in the ocean, in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, April 29, 2018. The group that led a monthlong caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States wanted to draw attention to the plight of people in the violent region. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik, File)

Feds say no discrimination in migrant caravan prosecutions

The Border Patrol targeted the migrant caravan for enforcement but didn't go after them because they were from Central American countries, the Trump administration said in new court filings this week meant to push back against accusations of illegal discriminatory prosecutions.

May 15, 2018
Central Americans who travel with a caravan of migrants they walk towards the border before crossing the border and request asylum in the United States, in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, April 29, 2018. A group of Central Americans who journeyed in a caravan to the U.S. border resolved to turn themselves in and ask for asylum Sunday in a direct challenge to the Trump administration - only to have U.S. immigration officials announce that the San Diego crossing was already at capacity. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik)

Donald Trump’s illegal immigrant ‘zero tolerance’ border policy fails

The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" vow to pursue criminal charges against all illegal border crossers is already stumbling, with one judge cutting migrants loose without any bail payment and federal prosecutors telling Border Patrol agents that they are full up and can't bring cases against everyone.

May 13, 2018
President Donald Trump, center, walks with Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, as he arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Donald Trump to huddle with Senate GOP next week

President Trump will make the short trip to the Capitol on Tuesday to meet with Senate Republicans, where he's expected to take a victory lap on the ongoing North Korea negotiations and to plot strategy for selling the improving economy to voters.

May 11, 2018
CIA nominee Gina Haspel is sworn in during a confirmation hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 9, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Gina Haspel says she never saw controversial tapes she deleted

Gina Haspel, the nominee to lead the CIA, said Wednesday that she did oversee destruction of 92 controversial tapes showing rough interrogations of suspected terrorists, but said her actions have been reviewed by three investigations and each of them found she acted properly.

May 9, 2018
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testifies before Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Activists sue to keep 350,000 would-be illegal immigrants in U.S.

Immigrant-rights activists said Wednesday they've now sued to stop the Trump administration from canceling special protections for 57,000 Hondurans in the U.S. who would otherwise be illegal immigrants, adding them into an already ongoing lawsuit over some 260,000 others from El Salvador and Haiti.

May 9, 2018
Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., speaks at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the 2020 Census, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

DOJ ducks chance to defend citizenship question on census

President Trump has bragged about getting a question on citizenship in the 2020 census, so lawmakers on Capitol Hill were surprised Tuesday when a top Justice Department official skipped a hearing where he was supposed to defend the move.

May 8, 2018
Police car lights. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

High school students ran drug, illegal immigrant smuggling rings in San Diego

A high school student in San Diego was charged Monday with running a smuggling ring that brought both illegal immigrants and drugs such as methamphetamine and the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl across the U.S.-Mexico border, in the latest indication cartels are tapping youths to help their criminal schemes.

May 8, 2018
Just-cut stacks of $100 bills make their way down the production line at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

CBO says April was best month in history for U.S. budget

The federal government took in a record tax haul in April en route to its biggest-ever monthly budget surplus, the Congressional Budget Office said, as a surging economy left Americans with more money in their paychecks -- and this more to pay to Uncle Sam.

May 7, 2018