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A demonstrator holds up a signs outside the White House in Washington, Monday, July 7, 2014, following a news conference of immigrant families and children's advocates responding to the President Barack Obama's response to the crisis of unaccompanied children and families illegally entering the US. A top Obama administration official says no one, not even children trying to escape violent countries, can illegally enter the United States without eventually facing deportation proceedings. But Homeland Security Sec Jeh Johnson basically acknowledged Sunday that such proceedings might be long delayed, and he said that coping with floods of unaccompanied minors crossing the border is a legal and humanitarian dilemma for the US. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama requests $3.7 billion to fight surge of illegals

Federal officials last week paid $584 to buy four versions of Monopoly, five packs of playing cards, a dozen beanbag tosses and other games for illegal immigrant children — a small fraction of what the Obama administration now says it will take to clothe, feed, transport, house and, yes, entertain the children surging across the border.

July 8, 2014
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, following a Democratic policy lunch. A massive $1.1 trillion spending bill, aimed at funding the government through October and putting to rest the bitter budget battles of last year, is getting generally positive reviews from House Republicans who are eager to avoid another shutdown crisis with elections looming. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Harry’s rules: Reid dominates crippled Congress

Harry Reid is one of 100 senators, but so far in 2014, he's been responsible for one-third of all the amendments proposed on the Senate floor — a number that underscores just how much one man has come to dominate the legislative process.

July 7, 2014
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.s' opinion in Riley v. California is likely to have long-term implications for cellphone data collection. (associated press)

Phone snoop ruling sets precedent on technology

Rulings on contraception and recess appointments may have grabbed bigger headlines, but the Supreme Court's decision last month requiring police to get a warrant before snooping through someone's cellphone is likely to have a bigger lasting impact.

July 6, 2014
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said the border is less secure than in recent years and that the surge of minors crossing into the U.S. illegally has become a major distraction for immigration agents. (Associated Press)

Texas Gov. Rick Perry says U.S. border less secure now

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday that the surge of people illegally crossing the southwestern border has become such a distraction for immigration agents that the border is now less secure than at any other time in recent years.

July 3, 2014
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Privacy board gives approval to some NSA spying programs

At least some of the government's snooping programs get high marks from a federal privacy watchdog, which approved a report Wednesday saying foreign intelligence collection is generally done in accordance with the Constitution and has been remarkably successful in sniffing out terrorist plots.

July 2, 2014
In this Jan. 29, 2014, photo, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on current and projected national security threats against the U.S. Clapper, said this week that the loss of state secrets as a result of leaks by former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden was the worst in American history. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Foreign intelligence snooping stopped dozens of terrorist plots: Privacy board

At least some of the government's snooping programs get high marks from the federal privacy watchdog, which approved a report Wednesday saying foreign intelligence collection is generally done in accordance with the Constitution and has been remarkably successful in sniffing out terrorist plots.

July 2, 2014
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, pauses while making an announcement about immigration reform, Monday, June 30, 2014, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama worst president since WWII, new poll shows

Poll after poll shows President Obama's approval rating dipping recently, and one new Quinnipiac University Poll finds that voters say Mitt Romney would have been a better choice in 2012.

July 2, 2014
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks about immigration reform, Monday, June 30, 2014, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. House Speaker John Boehner told President Obama that the House will not vote on overhauling the nation’s troubled immigration system during this election year, the White House says. Officials say Obama will announce steps Monday to deal with immigration through executive actions without congressional approval. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama: I will bypass Congress to fix immigration

President Obama began Monday by promising a get-tough approach to illegal immigration at the border and ended it by vowing to reduce enforcement in the interior, signaling a major shift in his policies as he conceded Congress is unlikely to pass a broad legalization bill this year.

June 30, 2014
President Barack Obama speaks while meeting with Chile's President Michelle Bachelet Monday, June 30, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama to announce new immigration policy Monday afternoon

President Obama has scheduled a Monday afternoon announcement on immigration, coming as the Associated Press reported House Speaker John A. Boehner has informed the White House there won't be a vote this year on the issue.

June 30, 2014
** FILE ** This June 18, 2014, file photo shows young detainees being escorted to an area to make phone calls as hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool)

Univision demands Obama treat illegal immigrant children better

The head of Univision, the largest Spanish-language broadcast network in the U.S., sent a letter Friday begging President Obama to be more generous to the illegal immigrant children surging across the U.S. border, and decrying "attempts to politicize it."

June 27, 2014

Job gains equal to number of immigrants

Since 2000, all of the net jobs added by the U.S. economy have gone to immigrants, both legal and illegal, according to a report being released Friday by the Center for Immigration Studies that challenges prevailing wisdom that the country needs an influx of workers.

June 27, 2014