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President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Monday, April 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trillion-dollar deficits come roaring back under Donald Trump

Republicans' tax cuts and the new spending bill Congress approved last month will send the economy surging this year to 3.3 percent growth -- but will also send the deficit soaring back to the record levels of the early Obama years, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday.

April 9, 2018
President Trump reviews prototypes for his proposed border wall constructed outside San Diego, California, shown here earlier this month with Rodney Scott, the Border Patrol's San Diego sector chief. (Associated Press)

DHS to build 20-mile wall along border in New Mexico

Homeland Security began building a border wall in New Mexico on Monday, moving to replace vehicle barriers and outdated mesh fencing with a modern wall that will deter pedestrians attempting to cross in the remove desert west of El Paso.

April 9, 2018
The White House is seen at dusk in Washington on Nov. 19, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

High-skilled visas go fast; Feds reach cap for H-1B program in one week

It took less than a week for businesses to snap up all 85,000 of the high-skilled visas available for 2019, the Trump administration said Friday, announcing that it has already received more than enough petitions to account for all of the H-1B visas it's allowed to give out next year.

April 6, 2018
In this June 25, 2014, photo, a group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped in Granjeno, Texas. The epicenter of the recent surge in illegal immigration is a 5-mile slice of deep South Texas that has become a hot spot for migrants, human smugglers and drug cartels. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Illegal immigration up 200 percent in March along U.S.-Mexico border

Illegal immigration across the southwest border surged 200 percent in March compared to the same month last year, according to Homeland Security statistics released late Wednesday that back up White House's claims that things are quickly deteriorating on the border. The surge also could be a signal that the Senate's debate on legalizing illegal immigrants earlier this year has sparked a new wave of migration.

April 4, 2018
In this June 12, 2006, file photo, Army National Guard Spc. Gustavo Gutierrez, 23, of Las Cruces, N.M., scans the U.S./Mexico border from the top of Radar Hill, near Columbus, N.M. In his threat Tuesday, April 3, 2018, to use the military on the U.S.-Mexico border until his promised wall is built, President Donald Trump again heaped blame on his predecessor, Barack Obama, and congressional Democrats for creating a dangerous and dysfunctional border. (Norm Dettlaff/Las Cruces Sun-News via AP, file)

Donald Trump signs order deploying National Guard to border

President Trump signed an order Wednesday deploying National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to boost security while he pressures Congress to deliver more resources to build his wall, hire more Border Patrol agents and make it easier to deport new illegal immigrants.

April 4, 2018
Demonstrators rally in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) outside the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 21, 2018. (Associated Press) **FILE**

DACA program grows after judges ordered restart

More than 64,000 illegal immigrant Dreamers have applied to renew their status under the Obama-era DACA program since a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restart the program, the government said in new numbers released Tuesday.

April 3, 2018