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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
Military police walk near Abrams tanks on a flat car in a rail yard, Monday, July 1, 2019, in Washington, ahead of a Fourth of July celebration that President Donald Trump says will include military hardware. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Don Beyer challenges Donald Trump to pay for July 4th damages in D.C. area

Rep. Don Beyer, a Democrat who represents the Virginia suburbs just across the Potomac River from Washington, demanded Tuesday that President Trump personally pay for any damage from the tanks and other military equipment that the president is deploying for the Fourth of July celebration.

July 2, 2019
President Donald Trump signs a $4.6 billion aid package to help the federal government cope with the surge of Central American immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump signs border bill

President Trump on Monday signed a bill giving him $4.6 billion in emergency money to provide better conditions for illegal immigrants at the border, and for migrant children being held at shelters in the country's interior.

July 1, 2019
Chief Justice Roberts

Carrie Severino pushes back against impeaching Justice Roberts

A leading conservative voice on judicial nominees rejected the suggestion of impeaching Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Friday, saying that while she was disappointed in some of his decision-making, ousting him wasn't going to happen.

June 28, 2019
FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2019 file photo, a woman walks on the beach next to the border wall topped with razor wire in Tijuana, Mexico. Congressional negotiators reached agreement to prevent a government shutdown and finance construction of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, overcoming a late-stage hang-up over immigration enforcement issues that had threatened to scuttle the talks. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Haywood S. Gilliam blocks more funding for Trump’s border wall

A federal judge issued a ruling late Friday blocking more of President Trump's border emergency wall-building plans, ruling that Congress denied him the money and the situations doesn't warrant his use of emergency powers to circumvent Capitol Hill.

June 28, 2019
Immigrant rights supporters hold giant letters reading "Dream Act" as they demonstrate in favor of Congress passing a 'Clean Dream Act' that will prevent the deportation of young immigrants known as Dreamers working and studying in the U.S.,Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, in Miami. President Trump announced plans to end a program protecting them. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) **FILE**

Supreme Court to decide legality of Trump DACA phaseout

The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear a series of cases challenging President Trump's attempt to cancel the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty, putting the issue on the front burner for the justices new term in the fall.

June 28, 2019
In this Jan. 25, 2019, file photo, a migrant sits with his children as they wait to hear if their number is called to apply for asylum in the United States, at the border in Tijuana, Mexico. Migrants who are being forced to wait in Mexico while they try to win asylum in the U.S. complain they are being subjected to violence in border cities. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Congress passes Trump’s border crisis funding bill

Congress on Thursday approved $4.6 billion in emergency aid to deal with the border crisis, giving President Trump a symbolic victory on immigration and money to improve conditions for migrant children and families crowding the border.

June 27, 2019