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Central American migrants climb into the back of a tractor trailer as a thousands strong caravan makes its way north hoping to reach the U.S. border, between Pijijiapan and Tonala, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Many migrants said they felt safer traveling and sleeping with several thousand strangers in unknown towns than hiring a smuggler or trying to make the trip alone.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Illegal immigrants pay billions each year to smugglers

The Rand Corp. is releasing a report Monday putting a dollar amount on at least some of that traffic. It estimates that Central American migrants paid as much as $2.3 billion to be smuggled into the U.S. in 2017.

April 22, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a campaign rally Wednesday, April 17, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Elizabeth Warren joins push for Trump impeachment

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday became the first major 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to urge her party to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump in the wake of the special counsel's newly released report.

April 19, 2019
Philadelphia Phillies' Bryce Harper warms up in the on-deck circle during the first inning of the team's baseball game against the Colorado Rockies on Thursday, April 18, 2019, in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

Fake Bryce Harper jerseys flood Philly: DHS

Customs authorities said Friday they have already intercepted more than 300 counterfeit Bryce Harper jerseys destined for Philadelphia, looking to take advantage of the city's newest superstar acquisition.

April 19, 2019
Oswaldo Barrientos walks among marijuana plants at the grow facility where he works near downtown Denver on Wednesday, April 3, 2019. He said U.S. immigration officials blocked his application for citizenship because he works in the marijuana industry. Barrientos was brought to the U.S. from El Salvador illegally as a child and started working in the industry in 2014. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert) **FILE**

Marijuana crimes may cost migrants chance at citizenship

The government's chief legal immigration agency announced new policy guidance Friday saying that marijuana-related crimes can still prevent someone from earning citizenship or other immigration benefits, even if use is considered legal under their state law.

April 19, 2019
U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., chair of the House Judiciary Committee, speaks during a news conference, Thursday, April 18, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

House subpoenas full Mueller report

House Democrats escalated the battle over access to the special counsel's report Friday when Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler issued a subpoena demanding the full document be produced to Congress.

April 19, 2019
President Donald Trump, stops to look across the tarmac as he greets supporters upon his arrival at Palm Beach International Airport, Thursday, April 18, 2019, in West Palm Beach, Fla. Trump traveled to Florida to spend the Easter weekend as his Mar-a-Lago estate. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Mueller report produces damning exoneration of Donald Trump

Special counsel Robert Mueller's 22-month investigation produced a damning exoneration of President Trump, finding that he did not conspire with Russia to subvert the 2016 election but did repeatedly attempt to shape the follow-up probes themselves with threats to fire investigators or cajole witnesses.

April 18, 2019
In this Oct. 28, 2013, file photo, former FBI Director Robert Mueller is seated at FBI Headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Justice Department offers Congress look at less-redacted Mueller report

The Justice Department will make a less-redacted copy of special counsel Robert Mueller's report available to key members of Congress next week, an assistant attorney general said in a letter Thursday evening -- though he insisted the information the lawmakers see must remain secret.

April 18, 2019
Journalists in the press room in the West Wing of the White House watch the televised broadcast of Attorney General William Barr speaking alongside Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, right, and Deputy Attorney General Ed O'Callaghan, left, about the release of a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report April 18, 2019, Thursday, April 18, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Mueller’s ‘road map’ for impeachment

Special counsel Robert Mueller said one reason he didn't recommend bringing charges against President Trump is that it could have foreclosed Congress' ability to impeach him.

April 18, 2019
President Trump (AP)

President Trump despaired after Mueller appointment

When Robert Mueller was appointed in 2017 to probe President Trump, the president saw it as a catastrophe of colossal proportions, saying it marked "the end of my presidency," according to the special counsel's final report.

April 18, 2019