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President Obama looks toward Mexico as he tours the Bridge of America Cargo Facility in El Paso, Texas, on May 10, 2011, as he visited the U.S.-Mexico border to speak about immigration reform. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Feds halt new citizenship approvals after spotting hole in background checks

The government suspended naturalization ceremonies and banned officers from approving any new applications for citizenship earlier this week after realizing its background check system was broken and ineligible people may have been slipping through, a key congressman revealed Friday.

December 2, 2016
A Hispanic supporter holds up a sign for then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a rally at the Anaheim Convention Center, Wednesday, May 25, 2016, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ** FILE **

Hispanic voting bloc proved to be not crucial in Trump win

Hispanics, who for more than a decade insisted they were the key to American politics, are now grappling with a life on the outside -- stunned that a Republican managed to capture the White House without winning at least a third of their support.

December 1, 2016
Detained children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for illegal immigrant women and children in Texas. (Associated Press)

Border Patrol complains of administering to needs families and children

Border Patrol agents have been reduced to "professional child care providers" for illegal immigrants, warming burritos and babysitting the families and unaccompanied children who are surging across the border at an increasing rate, the agents' frustrated chief told Congress on Wednesday.

November 30, 2016
Yesenia Del Carmen 8, carries a cross reading "No to the Deportations," "as she and her grandmother join an immigrant-rights supporters "Procession of the Cross" walk, led by U.S.-born children from the Federal building to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, Friday, Apr. 18, 2014. Immigrants urged the Obama administration today to stop deportations that they said are splitting up families. Del Carmen worries her father could be deported while at work. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

White House says Obama won’t pardon illegals

The White House's top immigration staffer said President Obama won't pardon illegal immigrants before the end of his term, dashing hopes of activists who had pleaded for Mr. Obama to use his powers to shield hundreds of thousands of Dreamers from deportation.

November 29, 2016
Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff and aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, rear, is seen during the Open Government Partnership meeting in New York, Tuesday, Sept., 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

FBI still hasn’t turned over Huma Abedin emails

The FBI still hasn't turned over to the State Department any of the messages it reportedly obtained from the computer shared by top Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her now-estranged husband Anthony Weiner, the administration told a federal judge Tuesday.

November 29, 2016
Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally in Sarasota, Fla., on Nov. 7, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Donald Trump wins Michigan’s 16 electoral votes, state board says

Michigan elections officials certified Monday that Donald Trump did win the state on Nov. 8, giving him a projected 306-232 win in the Electoral College -- but his opponents are still trying to wrench the victory away from him, raising millions of dollars to force recounts in enough states to swipe the race.

November 28, 2016
Idaho Senator Shirley McKague tries on a snuggie during a break in the Senate Chambers about an hour before the close of the 2010 session on Monday, March 29, 2010 in Boise, Id. (AP Photo/Matt Cilley)

Snuggies, Silent Shakespeare top annual government wasteful-spending list

If Shakespeare is performed without the bard's immortal words, is it really Shakespeare? The National Education Association has committed $10,000 of taxpayers' money to test that question -- one of dozens of projects to make the wasteful spending list of Sen. James Lankford, an Oklahoma Republican who's continuing the tradition of former Sen. Tom Coburn's annual Wastebook.

November 28, 2016
Court challenges have left much of President Obama's agenda in limbo, making it easy for President-elect Donald Trump to alter policy by dropping those cases. (Associated Press)

Justice Department backs down on immigration, digs in on Obamacare

The Justice Department has begun to suspend court cases over immigration policy, moving to give the Trump administration a chance to weigh in on the legal strategy, but it refused Tuesday to halt the challenge to Obamacare, suggesting it will try to go to the mat to protect the president's signature achievement.

November 22, 2016