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In this July 8, 2019, file photo, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers detain a man during an operation in Escondido, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Deportation sweep of illegal immigrant families nets 35 migrants

The first iteration of deportation sweeps against illegal immigrant families netted just 35 migrants -- and only 18 of them were actual targets, ICE announced, portraying a slow start to an operation that had sparked a massive backlash from immigrant rights activists.

July 23, 2019
President Donald Trump points to a reporter to ask a question during a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, July 22, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump, Congress reach budget deal

President Trump and congressional leaders reached a deal Monday evening to boost spending by hundreds of billions of dollars, while carving out trillions of dollars in new debt space for future borrowing.

July 22, 2019
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 expand speedy deportations across the country

Homeland Security announced an aggressive new policy Monday to fast-track deportations of recent immigrants caught in the living in the U.S. illegally, looking to expand a tool that's been used successfully at the border for years.

July 22, 2019
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan speaks at a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Kevin McAleenan challenges Democrats to help improve conditions at border

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan told Congress on Thursday that the answer to troubling stories of overcrowding of illegal immigrants at the border is to increase money for ICE detention in the interior, putting the burden back on the Democrats most vocal in complaining about the conditions.

July 18, 2019
In this Wednesday, May 22, 2019, photo migrants mainly from Central America guide their children through the entrance of a World War II-era bomber hanger in Deming, N.M. A panel of appeals court judges in California will hear arguments in the long-running battle between advocates for immigrant children and the U.S. government over conditions in detention and holding facilities near the southwest border. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio) **FILE**

DHS: ‘They have tens of thousands of toothbrushes’

Children at the border do have toothbrushes, do get the chance to take showers and have their dirty clothes washed when they are apprehended at the border, acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said Thursday.

July 18, 2019
Pastor Aaron Mendes hands out documents to migrants before they enter the immigration office on the Mexican side of the border, before they are escorted across to apply for asylum on the United States side, in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Asylum-seekers grappled to understand what a new U.S. policy that all but eliminates refugee claims by Central Americans and many others meant for their bids to find a better life in America amid a chaos of rumors, confusion and fear. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Senators suggest bipartisan border solution to speed deportations

A bipartisan group of senators offered a new solution to the border crisis Thursday that could clear the way for approvals for those with legitimate asylum cases, while speeding deportations for the vast majority of illegal immigrant families who don't have real claims.

July 18, 2019
In this July 4, 2019, file photo, a group of asylum seekers crosses the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Thursday, July 4, 2019. (Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP)

Donald Trump moves to reject some asylum seekers

The Trump administration announced a new regulation Monday aimed at trying to deny some migrants the chance to claim asylum in the U.S. if they have crossed other countries to get here.

July 15, 2019
In this Feb. 5, 2019, file photo, Border Patrol agent Vincent Pirro looks on near a border wall that separates the cities of Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, in San Diego. Hundreds of thousands of people have been arriving at the border in recent months, many of them families fleeing violence and poverty in Central America. Once they reach the border, they can take different paths to try to get into the U.S. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Donald Trump asks Supreme Court to OK border wall building

The administration asked the Supreme Court Friday to lift lower court rulings halting President Trump's border wall emergency, asking to be allowed to begin construction while the case proceeds through those lower courts.

July 12, 2019
President Donald Trump is joined by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Attorney General William Barr, right, as he speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump drops census citizenship question

President Trump on Thursday ordered the Census Bureau to try to figure out how many American residents are citizens -- but ditched plans to include the question on the 2020 count, caving to political hurdles and legal realities.

July 11, 2019
Rey Wences, an organizer at Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD), addresses reporters during a new conference outside U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices in Chicago, Thursday, July 11, 2019. A nationwide immigration enforcement operation targeting people who are in the United States illegally is expected to begin this weekend. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky)

Lawyers rush to court to head off deportation sweep

Immigrant-rights activists rushed to court in New York Thursday to ask a judge to head off President Trump's plans for a new deportation sweep, asking that anyone ordered removed in absentia without a lawyer be granted an automatic new hearing.

July 11, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Pelosi: Illegal immigrants should refuse to admit ICE

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday urged illegal immigrants to refuse to open the door to ICE officers, saying they have rights and must exercise them to thwart the administration's planned deportation sweep.

July 11, 2019
In this May 25, 2010, photo, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent walks down the aisle among shackled Mexican immigrants a boarded a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter jet for deportation in the air between Chicago, Il. and Harlingen, Texas. (Associated Press) **FILE**

ICE deportation sweep to begin this weekend

ICE officers will begin President Trump's promised deportation sweep this weekend, targeting about 2,000 illegal immigrants who have been ordered deported but are defying those judges' orders to remain in the country, The New York Times reported Thursday.

July 11, 2019