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FILE - This Aug. 17, 2018, file photo provided by the Alexandria (Va.) Detention Center shows Maria Butina. The Russian gun rights activist who admitted being a secret agent for the Kremlin and trying to infiltrate conservative U.S. political groups while Donald Trump rose to power has been released from federal prison according to a statement Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which says it has taken custody of Butina. She’s expected to return to Russia now that she’s finished her 18-month sentence. (Alexandria Detention Center via AP, File)

ICE deports Russian operative Marina Butina

Maria Butina was convicted last year of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, as part of the FBI's efforts to combat the Russian government's meddling in the 2016 election.

October 25, 2019
Suanny Gomez, 24, from Honduras and seeking asylum in the United States, waits in a tent with her 5-year-old son, William, Tuesday, April 30, 2019, in Matamoros, Mexico. Gomez said she does not have money to pay a proposed fee for seeking asylum. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

DHS cuts welfare test for immigration fee waivers

Homeland Security's citizenship agency announced Friday it is streamlining the way migrants can apply for a discount on their immigration fees, saying that the old method unfairly gave an advantage to people living in some states.

October 25, 2019
Demonstrators protest in downtown Miami, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. A North Carolina student suspended for using the term "illegal aliens" in class has sued the school district, saying he was bullied and ostracized after being falsely "branded as a racist." (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

ICE cancels fines on illegal immigrants in sanctuary

The government's deportation agency has canceled the fines of up to $500,000 it had tried to levy on some illegal immigrants who are living in protection in churches, the sanctuary movement said Tuesday.

October 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 **

Los Angeles sanctuary policy releases 100 criminals a day: ICE

As many as 100 criminals a day are being released back onto the street in the Los Angeles area alone under California's sanctuary city law, ICE's top deportation official told Congress on Tuesday as he pleaded for lawmakers to do something.

October 22, 2019
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 to decide whether Obama-era Wall Street cop is legal

The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency President Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren set up to police Wall Street in the wake of the Great Recession.

October 18, 2019
In this Aug. 11, 2017, photo U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents pick up immigrants suspected of crossing into the United States illegally along the Rio Grande near Granjeno, Texas. The election of President Donald Trump contributed to a dramatic downturn in migration, causing the number of arrests at the border to hit an all-time low in April and helping the U.S. end the 2017 fiscal year at a 45-year low. But since bottoming out in April, the number of immigrants caught at the southern border has been increasing monthly. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

DOJ sets record for prosecuting illegal immigrants

The Justice Department set a record over the last year, prosecuting more criminal cases against illegal immigrants and migrant smugglers than any other year on record, officials announced Friday.

October 18, 2019
A construction worker's gloved hand is seen through a portion of the 30-foot tall bollard fence as work continues on the U.S./Mexico border fence two miles east of the Lukeville, Arizona port of entry on Oct. 8, 2019. An effort to overturn the president's direction of emergency funding for border-wall construction fell short of passage on Oct. 17 in the Senate. Photo taken from Sonoyta, Sonora, Mexico. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP) **FILE**

Senate can’t stop Donald Trump’s border wall

Senators gave a backhand approval Thursday to President Trump's border emergency wall building plans by failing to override his veto, marking the latest instance when the White House has outmaneuvered Congress.

October 17, 2019