Sen. Ted Cruz announced a new bill Monday to stop family separations at the border, calling for a massive infusion of money and manpower to solve the problem without going back to the days of catch-and-release.
Sen. Kamala Harris, California Democrat, demanded Monday that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen should resign for overseeing the zero tolerance policy that has led to illegal immigrants being jailed and their children being temporarily separated from them.
Fired FBI Director James B. Comey refused to appear before Congress on Monday to talk about his handling of the Clinton email investigation, and his fired deputy, Andrew McCabe, asserted his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, Sen. Charles E. Grassley said.
The FBI must gain access to emails fired Director James Comey sent from a personal account, even though he was doing government business, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Monday.
Nearly 70 children are being separated from their parents every day under the Trump administration's zero tolerance border policy, a top Democratic senator said Monday, suggesting the pace of separations has increased in recent weeks.
President Trump challenged Democrats to "come to the table" to fix the country's immigration system, saying Monday that the current battle is over whether the U.S. should have borders.
The Supreme Court declined Monday to overturn Wisconsin's heavily gerrymandered legislative districts, saying the plaintiffs didn't do enough to prove they had standing to bring the lawsuit.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said told Americans not to believe the horrific stories of family separation and abuse of children in detention facilities being reported from the border, saying the children get good care.
Two Democratic lawmakers who visited a detention facility where illegal immigrants are held said Monday that the Trump administration is rejecting people who deserve asylum.
Ten people who'd been arrested on murder charges were nonetheless granted permission to remain and work in the U.S. under the Obama-era DACA amnesty, according to new government data released Monday.
Republican leaders have invited President Trump to visit Capitol Hill this week to try to repair the damage he did when he said he wouldn't sign the immigration compromise that House Republicans had spent months writing.
The White House said Friday evening that President Trump misunderstood the question when he blasted Republican leaders' immigration bill, and insisted he really does support the compromise plan that just hours earlier he said he "wouldn't sign."
The Justice Department announced an indictment Friday against former tech world wonder woman Elizabeth Holmes, saying her claims of having created a revolutionary blood test were a sham.
The inspector general's report faulting former FBI Director James Comes for his handling of the 2016 campaign-season investigation into Hillary Clinton "puts an asterisk" on President Trump's victory, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee said.
Nearly 2,000 children were nabbed at the border traveling with their parents in late April and May, Homeland Security said Friday, laying out the contours of children who are being separated under the Trump administration's new zero tolerance policy.
President Trump seemed to undercut House GOP leaders' new immigration bill Friday, suggesting in an interview that he "certainly wouldn't sign" it if it reached his desk.
President Trump said Friday he "hates" separating children from their parents at the border, but said he was compelled to follow laws that make jumping the border illegally, which means jailing parents even if they brought their children.
Congressional Republicans began to break Thursday with the Trump administration over its zero-tolerance border policy, saying that while they respect the goal of enforcing the law, they are uncomfortable with the consequence of children torn from their parents' arms.
Deportation officers arrested 162 people in the Los Angeles area this week in a new action aimed at one of the country's most notorious sanctuary city areas. Nearly a third of those arrested had been in local custody before but were released under sanctuary policies, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Fired FBI Director James B. Comey was "insubordinate" and a top agent's political bias might have skewed the bureau's focus on candidate Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton in the waning days of the 2016 presidential race, the Justice Department's inspector general said in a report that cast shame on the storied bureau.