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CASA de Maryland, an immigration advocacy and assistance organization, holds a rally in Lafayette Park, across from the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, in reaction to the announcement regarding Temporary Protective Status for people from El Salvador. The Trump administration is ending special protections for Salvadoran immigrants, forcing nearly 200,000 to leave the U.S. by September 2019 or face deportation. El Salvador is the fourth country whose citizens have lost Temporary Protected Status under President Donald Trump, and they have been, by far, the largest beneficiaries of the program, which provides humanitarian relief for foreigners whose countries are hit with natural disasters or other strife. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Illegal immigration up again in December

Illegal immigration at the southwest border ticked up again in December, according to the latest numbers released Tuesday that showed an increasing flow of people showing up at the ports of entry demanding to be admitted.

January 9, 2018
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, that he plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Republican Jeff Flake. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Joe Arpaio to run for Senate in Arizona

Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced Tuesday he will run for Arizona's Senate seat as an unabashedly pro-Trump candidate, inflaming what was already one of the hottest races in the country.

January 9, 2018
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks in his office just after final approval of the Republican rewrite of the tax code, during an interview with The Associated Press at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Paul Ryan confirms GOP talking about earmark revival

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan confirmed Tuesday that his troops are beginning a conversation about restoring the practice of earmark spending -- though he said they were just conversations at this point.

January 9, 2018
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, speaks during a meeting with Republican senators on immigration in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington on Jan. 4, 2018. (Associated Press) **FILE**

DHS announces end to special status for 200,000 Salvadorans

The Trump administration will end a special protected status for about 200,000 would-be illegal immigrants from El Salvador who have been living here since 2001 -- though they'll have an 18-month grace period to get their affairs in order, officials announced Monday.

January 8, 2018
Rep. John Culberson, Texas Republican, said, "The time is right" to consider a return to earmarks. He is pushing for a test run so Congress can prove it can be responsible. (Associated Press/File)

House Republicans reconsider earmarks

House Republicans are about to take the first steps to revive earmarks, with officials planning to hold hearings early this year to look at how they might ease back into the practice, The Washington Times has learned, as a growing number of lawmakers think they have surrendered too much power by forgoing them.

January 7, 2018
Border agents searching cellphones and other electronics without warrants has raised privacy concerns among civil liberties groups and privacy advocates. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

DHS cellphone border searches jumped 50 percent in 2017

Border officials searching travelers' electronic devices cannot use them to get at information stored in the cloud, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a new policy Friday that puts some firm limits on the extent of border searches.

January 5, 2018
Money transfer services allow Salvadorans and others under temporary protected status to send remittances, adding greatly to the gross domestic product of their home countries. (Associated Press/File)

TSP immigrant remittances boost GDP in Central America

Salvadorans living in the U.S. are, by most accounts, devoted workers with high workforce participation rates and better-than-average education levels compared with their countrymen still living in El Salvador.

January 4, 2018
A Motel 6 motel is seen Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, in SeaTac, Wash. Washington's attorney general is suing Motel 6, saying the budget hotel disclosed the personal information of thousands of guests to federal immigration authorities in violation of state law. Attorney General Bob Ferguson said at a news conference Wednesday that the motel divulged to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement the names, dates of birth, license plate numbers and room numbers of more than 9,000 guests at six locations throughout the state. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Motel 6 won’t cooperate with ICE on immigration checks

The Motel 6 chain said it stopped cooperating with federal immigration officials months ago, responding to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by Washington state, which said thousands of guests' information was illegally shared with deportation officers.

January 3, 2018
Vice President Mike Pence, left, accompanied by Vice-Chair Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, right, speaks during the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The information coming out of President Donald Trump’s commission to investigate voter fraud has frustrated not only reporters and senators but now even members of the commission. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Donald Trump dissolves voter fraud commission

President Trump dissolved his voter integrity commission Wednesday and ordered the Homeland Security Department to take up the job instead, in a move his backers said could speed up an investigation of the extent of voter fraud.

January 3, 2018
Thomas Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Associated Press) **FILE**

Judge orders potential release of hundreds of illegals from Iraq

A federal judge in Michigan has ordered the government to give bond hearings in preparation for releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants from Iraq into the community, saying the Constitution protects them from indefinite detention in the U.S.

January 3, 2018
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden prepares to kick off a book tour this week, just as Democrats think about whom they want to ride into the 2020 presidential election. (Associated Press/File)

Schumer to Biden: ‘We need your help’

Was Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer joking when he told former Vice President Joseph R. Biden on Wednesday that Democrats would love to have him back in the saddle in the middle of big negotiations?

January 3, 2018