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Demonstrators chant and hold signs, Wednesday, June 24, 2020, outside the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Miami. Immigrant rights groups are protesting conditions at ICE detention centers due to the potential spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

ICE dinged for broken showers, bungled treatment of detainees

Homeland Security's inspector general found problems at all four ICE detention facilities where it conducted unannounced visits last year, including one that didn't document why it sent some migrants into segregation, and another that failed to check up on migrants often enough, heightening risk of suicide.

July 7, 2020
In this July 8, 2019, file photo, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers transfer a man in handcuffs and ankle cuffs onto a van during an operation in Escondido, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

House Democrats announce cuts to Border Patrol, ICE

It's not "abolish ICE," but House Democrats took their best shot Monday, announcing a bill to slash the Department of Homeland Security's deportation operations by 25%, blocking new hiring of Border Patrol agents and trying to erase dozens of miles of President Trump's border wall.

July 6, 2020
President Donald Trump greets visitors as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House during a "Salute to America" event, Saturday, July 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Manufacturers warn recovery could falter without more immigration

President Trump's coronavirus immigration pause could stunt the recovery by preventing key managers from multinational companies from being able to come into the U.S. to get their operations moving again, the National Association of Manufacturers warned Monday.

July 6, 2020
In this Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 photo, pedestrians pass signs near a polling site in San Antonio. On April 15, 2020, a Texas judge ruled that all state voters can cast ballots by mail because of coronavirus, siding with Democrats and rejecting the state's GOP leadership, which argued the law forbade it. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Supreme Court won’t speed Texas vote-by-mail case

The Supreme Court said Thursday that it won't speed a case challenging Texas' restrictions on mail-in voting, leaving in place lower court rulings that said fear of contracting the coronavirus isn't a valid reason under state law.

July 2, 2020
In this image provided by the Executive Office of the Mayor, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser stands on the rooftop of the Hay Adams Hotel near the White House and looks out at the words 'Black Lives Matter' that have been painted in bright yellow letters on the street by city workers and activists, Friday, June 5, 2020, in Washington. (Executive Office of the Mayor/Khalid Naji-Allah via AP) ** FILE **

D.C. sued over Black Lives Matter painted on city streets

Judicial Watch filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday demanding access to D.C.'s streets to paint its own messages, after the city painted Black Lives Matter on one street and allowed protesters to paint their own "Defund the police" message next to it.

July 1, 2020
In this Nov. 10, 2019, file photo, migrants gather at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, to hear names called from a waiting list to claim asylum in the U.S. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat, File)

Judge erases key Trump asylum crackdown policy

A federal judge struck down a key part of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown framework late Tuesday, ruling that Homeland Security cut too many corners when it tried to block asylum seekers from picking and choosing which country they settle in.

July 1, 2020
In this March 30, 2012, photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents take a suspect into custody as part of a nationwide immigration sweep in Chula Vista, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

ICE cooperation surges as deportation agreements triple

Despite feverish anti-ICE sentiment and some high-profile defections, the Trump administration has quietly managed to expand the number of jurisdictions that have agreed to scour their jails and cooperate with Homeland Security to spot migrants with criminal records who should be deported.

June 30, 2020
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, speaks to media as he arrives for a briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March, 12, 2020, on the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Mitt Romney 2012 campaign veterans backing Joe Biden over Donald Trump

Veterans of Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign are eyeing an alliance with Joseph R. Biden, looking to make a splash in announcing they have turned their backs on the Republican Party this year and will support the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee instead.

June 30, 2020
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, asks a question during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on police use of force and community relations on on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 16, 2020, in Washington. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Pool via AP)

China gets free pass on taxes on U.S. debt dividends

China holds more than $1 trillion in U.S. government debt -- and thanks to a decades-old tax treaty doesn't have to pay tax to Uncle Sam on the income it derives from dividends from the interest on that debt.

June 30, 2020
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Elizabeth Warren, announces that Warren will head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Supreme Court rules Obama/Warren Wall Street cop is illegal

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- the Wall Street cop agency devised by then-Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren and launched under President Obama -- puts too much power in a single director, making it unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.

June 29, 2020