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Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y. attends a news conference of the Senate Democratic Leadership, Tuesday Sept. 24, 2019, after their policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senate votes to block Trump border wall emergency money grab

Senators voted Wednesday to rebuke President Trump and cancel his border emergency, saying he overstepped his powers in grabbing $3.6 billion Congress approved for military construction projects and instead spending it on his campaign promise to build a border wall.

September 25, 2019
President Donald Trump hangs up the phone after talking with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, in Washington. Trump is announcing a trade "understanding" with Mexico that could lead to an overhaul of the North American Free Trade Agreement.Trump made the announcement Monday in the Oval Office, with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto joining by speakerphone. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Justice Department clears Trump of wrongdoing on Ukraine call

The Justice Department's Criminal Division has already investigated President Trump's conversation with the Ukrainian president about Joseph R. Biden and concluded Mr. Trump did not violate campaign finance laws, officials announced Wednesday.

September 25, 2019
More than 72,000 people from travel ban countries have applied for visas since the inception of President Trump's travel ban policy. (Associated Press)

Trump travel ban kept 30,000 people from entering U.S.

President Trump's travel ban has kept more than 30,000 people from entering the U.S., officials revealed to Congress on Tuesday, though they said they're doing a better job of granted waivers to people with hardship cases who deserve a chance to enter.

September 24, 2019
Speaking to reporters, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, D-Calif., defends recent rhetoric from President Donald Trump as he arrives for votes in the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 18, 2019. McCarthy, a staunch Trump ally, said the president's aversion to Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is based on ideology, not race. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Kevin McCarthy: Nancy Pelosi impeachment inquiry empty gesture

The top House Republican said Tuesday that Speaker Nancy Pelosi's announcement that the House is now in the middle of an impeachment inquiry was an empty gesture, saying it's no different than what Democrats have been doing for months.

September 24, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., reads a statement announcing a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Nancy Pelosi to open impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday accused President Trump of a "betrayal of his oath of office" and said Democrats will rise to the challenge of the moment by opening an unprecedented inquiry that could lead to his impeachment.

September 24, 2019
President Donald Trump tours a section of the southern border wall, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Otay Mesa, Calif. President Trump is asking a federal judge to block an effort by New York prosecutors to obtain his tax returns. Trump’s attorneys filed a lawsuit Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, in U.S. District Court in New York.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Senate GOP touts $5 billion border wall bill

Senate Republicans on Tuesday laid down their ante in the new border wall spending battle with a homeland security spending bill that includes $5 billion in additional money to build more fencing in 2020 and fulfill President Trump's top campaign promise.

September 24, 2019
A Mexican citizen gestures after climbing the border fence to take pictures of himself, in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) **FILE**

Illegal entry penalties in other countries include prison, labor camps, caning

Jumping the border in Singapore is punishable by six months in prison -- and not less than three strokes with a cane. In Russia, it can earn you up to two years in a prison labor camp. Pakistan goes as high as 10 years in prison, while India allows for up to eight years behind bars for those who sneak across its boundaries.

September 23, 2019
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

Homeland Security will finally end "catch-and-release" of Central American immigrant families caught crossing the border illegally, acting Secretary Kevin K. McAleenan announced Monday, saying the department has finally gotten a handle on the migrant surge that had sowed chaos at the border over the last year.

September 23, 2019
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan, right, with Alexandra Hill, left, Minister of Foreign Affairs for El Salvador, during news conference at the US Customs and Border Protection Headquarters in Washington, Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. McAleenan and Hill announced that the US has reached an accord aimed at making El Salvador a haven for migrants seeking asylum. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump admin. reaches asylum deal with El Salvador

The Trump administration signed an asylum agreement Friday with El Salvador, giving the U.S. the right to repatriate migrants who cross through El Salvador to reach the U.S. and who then request asylum here.

September 20, 2019
The Supreme Court building is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Supreme Court allows Trump asylum rules enforcement

The Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday for the Trump administration to deny asylum to migrants from other countries who traveled through Mexico before reaching the U.S., giving the administration a major win as it tries to stop the border surge.

September 11, 2019
In this July 30, 2019, photo, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., takes questions from reporters at the Capitol in Washington. More than 200 mayors, including the mayors of El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, are urging Senate leaders to call senators back to the Capitol to act on bipartisan gun safety legislation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Chuck Schumer says guns, election security top Dem agenda

As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sees it, the fall agenda for Congress is more of the same -- speeding President Trump's nominees and working to keep the government open with a new round of spending bills.

September 5, 2019
United States Customs and Border Protection officers watch as a group of 14 people, who were found hiding in a 2004 Chevrolet Suburban SUV, unload from the car in the San Ysidro Port of Entry secondary inspection on Tuesday, June 13, 2006, in San Diego, California. (AP Photo/David Maung) ** FILE **

Migrant smuggling across Mexico border common and deadly

While sneaking illegal immigrants over fences or across rivers is the most common method, the deaths of the migrants highlight the more lucrative trade in bringing them straight through the country's front door undetected.

September 4, 2019
In this July 24, 2019, photo, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., listens as former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Jerrold Nadler demands docs on alleged Trump pardons to DHS

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler demanded Wednesday that Homeland Security turn over any documents that would show President Trump attempted to offer pardons to officials willing to break to the law to carry out his immigration policies.

September 4, 2019