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In this Feb.19, 2019, file photo, children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Bennie Thompson, Democrats vow immigrant detention center probe

Lawmakers return to Washington this week more divided than ever and facing a series of new immigration policy crises, with an urgency to troubling conditions at the border for illegal immigrants, with President Trump sparking a clash over the 2020 census, and with the Homeland Security Department preparing a round of deportations of illegal immigrant families.

July 7, 2019
FILE - In this July 1, 2019, file photo trader Vincent Napolitano works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The U.S. stock market opens at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, July 3. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Economy adds 224,000 jobs in June rebound

The economy added 224,000 jobs in June, the Labor Department announced Friday, describing a market that remains resilient nearly a decade into the recovery from the Great Recession.

July 5, 2019
President Donald Trump talks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before departing to Japan for the G-20 summit, Wednesday, June 26, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

2020 census citizenship question back in play after Trump tweet

President Trump's Twitter account upended the 2020 census on Wednesday, with government lawyers scrambling to figure out how to reverse themselves and add a citizenship question into next year's count -- just a day after they'd told courts it wasn't going to happen.

July 3, 2019
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters following the weekly policy lunches on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Chuck Schumer demands firing of Donald Trump’s border team

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer demanded a total decapitation of leadership at the government's border agency Wednesday, saying only a full housecleaning can fix a "toxic" culture among Border Patrol agents and improve conditions for illegal immigrants.

July 3, 2019
People hold signs protesting the treatment of asylum seekers held in immigration detention centers Tuesday, July 2, 2019, outside the office of Sen. Pat Roberts in Overland Park, Kan. The protest, with about 150 participants, was one of several held outside congressional offices nationwide calling for the closure of the detention centers. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

White House blasts courts after latest immigration setback

The White House lashed out Wednesday against a federal judge who ruled that asylum-seekers must be given a chance to make bond and be released while their cases are heard, calling it a decision "at war with the rule of law."

July 3, 2019
In this June 23, 2018, photo, a U.S. Border Patrol Agent walks between vehicles outside the Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas. A report released Tuesday, July 2, 2019, by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General warns that facilities in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, including the CPC in McAllen, face “serious overcrowding” and require “immediate attention.” (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) **FILE**

House Dems announce hearing to probe border detention conditions

House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings on Tuesday called top border officials to testify to Congress next week, saying he's going to get to the bottom of reports of migrants drinking from toilets and offensive internet posts shared by Border Patrol agents.

July 2, 2019
In this Nov. 27, 2018, file photo, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., then incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, addresses an audience during a gathering of business leaders in Boston. The Democrats tried and failed several times to obtain Trump's returns as the minority party in Congress. Their newly energized leftward wing is pushing the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., to set the quest in motion, and fast. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

House Democrats sue to get Donald Trump tax returns

House Democrats went to court Tuesday to ask a judge to order the Trump administration to turn over President Trump's tax returns, starting a legal fight that could go a long way toward settling how much power Congress has to probe the president.

July 2, 2019