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During a training drill, Customs and Border Protection officials block the entrance to the San Ysidro port of entry. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump yields on 3 immigration policies

President Trump's latest immigration proposal marks a retreat on three areas of policy in what the White House said was a "good faith" effort to try to break the gridlock that for more than a decade has thwarted every effort to strike a compromise on the thorny issue.

January 20, 2019
President Donald Trump speaks about the partial government shutdown, immigration and border security in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s plan: Some wins for him, some wins for Ds, some middle ground

President Trump's new immigration proposal Saturday marked a retreat on three different areas of policy, in what the White House said was a "good-faith" effort to try to break the gridlock that for more than a decade has thwarted every effort to strike a compromise on the thorny issue.

January 19, 2019
Vice President Mike Pence speaks at 2019 March for Life dinner in Washington, Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) **FILE**

Mike Pence: ‘This is not an amnesty bill’

The White House flatly denied accusations from conservatives that President Trump's new immigration plan Saturday is an "amnesty" for illegal immigrants, insisting that it's only a temporary salve that does not offer a full pathway to citizenship.

January 19, 2019
Families sled down a hill on the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol during a snowstorm, as a partial government shutdown stretches into its third week at Capitol Hill in Washington Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

GOP lawmakers tell Donald Trump to move State of Union to Senate

George Washington delivered his first State of the Union address in the Senate chamber. Now a group of Republicans says President Trump should do the same thing, going around House Democrats who a day earlier had told the president to postpone or cancel the annual address, currently slated for Jan. 29.

January 17, 2019
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., followed by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., center, and Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., as they walk to the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi shifts reasoning on State of Union speech delay

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi renewed her call to postpone the State of the Union address but changed her reasons Thursday, saying her worry isn't that the Secret Service can't do its job but rather that they shouldn't be asked to do it while they're not getting paid.

January 17, 2019
In this Aug. 9, 2018, photo, provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, mothers and their children stand in line at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. A complaint expected to be filed Thursday, Aug. 23 with the Department of Homeland Security alleges that immigration authorities coerced dozens of parents separated from their children at the border to sign documents they didn't understand. In some of those cases, parents gave away rights to be reunited with their kids. The complaint will be filed by the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the American Immigration Council. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) **FILE**

Feds can’t say how many children were separated at border: IG

The government can't say how many illegal immigrant children were separated from their parents at the border over the years, but the number is in the thousands in just the last two years, according to a new inspector general's report Thursday.

January 17, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, speaks to reporters as she leaves an event with furloughed federal workers amid the partial government shutdown, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Republicans blast Democrats call to delay State of Union

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to raise the political stakes on the partial government shutdown Wednesday by telling President Trump to postpone his State of the Union address, arguing that it's too dangerous to give a speech to a joint session of Congress with the Secret Service working without pay.

January 16, 2019
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, speaks as she departs a deposition before the House Judiciary Committee by Peter Strzok, the FBI agent facing criticism following a series of anti-Trump text messages, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Sheila Jackson Lee sued by ex-staffer over rape claim firing

A former congressional staffer filed a lawsuit last week saying she was raped by an employee at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, and when she said she was taking legal action against the foundation she was fired by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.

January 16, 2019
In this file photo, Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen discusses a SPLC federal lawsuit against the Alabama Accountability Act during a press conference in Montgomery, Ala., Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Dave Martin) ** FILE **

Immigration group demands SPLC revoke ‘hate’ label

One of the most prominent groups advocating for stricter immigration went to court Wednesday to demand a judge order the Southern Poverty Law Center to stop labeling it a "hate group," accusing the self-described watchdog of running an illegal racket to silence political opponents.

January 16, 2019