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A federal court in Texas ruled that President Trump's border emergency proclamation issued in February, which he's using to siphon Pentagon money for the border wall, is illegal. (Associated Press photographs)

Trump immigration agenda in peril after rulings, Kevin McAleenan departure

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Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan speaks during a news conference with El Salvador Foreign Affairs Minister Alexandra Hill at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Washington, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

‘Catch-and-release’ to end next week, Homeland Security says

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This GOES-16 satellite image taken Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019, at 16:00 UTC and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows Hurricane Dorian, right, churning over the Atlantic Ocean. Hurricane Dorian bore down on the Bahamas as a fierce Category 4 storm Saturday, with new projections showing it curving upward enough to potentially spare Florida a direct hit but still threatening parts of the Southeast U.S. with powerful winds and rising ocean water that causes what can be deadly flooding.(NOAA via AP)

FEMA chief: ‘Plenty of money’ for Hurricane Dorian despite budget transfer

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, file photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) ** FILE **

DHS to use disaster money for border security, deportations

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Kevin K. McAleenan, U.S. acting secretary of Homeland Security, speaks Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, at a federal building in Jackson, Miss. McAleenan said “violent white supremacist ideology” is fueling some domestic terrorism. (AP Photo/Emily Wagster Pettus)

US homeland security chief: Racism is fueling some terrorism

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

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Study: Migrant families are showing up for deportation hearings

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill., works in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2019. House Democrats are rounding the first 100 days of their new majority taking stock of their accomplishments, noting the stumbles and marking their place as a frontline of resistance to President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lauren Underwood rebuked after accusing DHS secretary of killing children

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable on immigration and border security at the U.S. Border Patrol Calexico Station in Calexico, Calif., Friday April 5, 2019. Trump headed to the border with Mexico to make a renewed push for border security as a central campaign issue for his 2020 re-election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump to demand more money for border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, photo, a Border Patrol agent apprehends a person suspected of having entered the U.S. illegally near McAllen, Texas. While many adults crossing the border on their own in South Texas try to flee agents, most migrant parents and children wait to surrender so they can be processed and released into the United States. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Border Patrol forced to restart ‘catch-and-release’ of illegals at border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Kirstjen Nielsen arrives to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2019, before the House Homeland Security Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Kevin McAleenan, Kirstjen Nielsen border security pleas dismissed by Democrats at hearing

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., listens as U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan speaks during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on oversight of Customs and Border Protection's response to the smuggling of persons at the southern border, Wednesday, March 6, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Kamala Harris complains over toys being taken from illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The U.S.-Mexico border fence near Smuggler's Gulch west of the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego on April 27, 2006 (Associated Press) **FILE**

Smugglers to make $2.5 billion off migrants this year: DHS

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Honduran migrant grabs his son as they climb the U.S. border fence before jumping into the U.S. to San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves in to border patrol agents. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Illegal immigration at worst rate since 2007

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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Migrant family members move into a hole to cross under the U.S. border wall, aided by two local guides, in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall illegally and hand themselves in to Border Patrol agents to request asylum. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

More than 3,000 illegals caught in one day: DHS

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times