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Border agents searching cellphones and other electronics without warrants has raised privacy concerns among civil liberties groups and privacy advocates. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

DHS cellphone border searches jumped 50 percent in 2017

Border officials searching travelers' electronic devices cannot use them to get at information stored in the cloud, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a new policy Friday that puts some firm limits on the extent of border searches.

January 5, 2018
Money transfer services allow Salvadorans and others under temporary protected status to send remittances, adding greatly to the gross domestic product of their home countries. (Associated Press/File)

TSP immigrant remittances boost GDP in Central America

Salvadorans living in the U.S. are, by most accounts, devoted workers with high workforce participation rates and better-than-average education levels compared with their countrymen still living in El Salvador.

January 4, 2018
A Motel 6 motel is seen Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, in SeaTac, Wash. Washington's attorney general is suing Motel 6, saying the budget hotel disclosed the personal information of thousands of guests to federal immigration authorities in violation of state law. Attorney General Bob Ferguson said at a news conference Wednesday that the motel divulged to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement the names, dates of birth, license plate numbers and room numbers of more than 9,000 guests at six locations throughout the state. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Motel 6 won’t cooperate with ICE on immigration checks

The Motel 6 chain said it stopped cooperating with federal immigration officials months ago, responding to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by Washington state, which said thousands of guests' information was illegally shared with deportation officers.

January 3, 2018
Vice President Mike Pence, left, accompanied by Vice-Chair Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, right, speaks during the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The information coming out of President Donald Trump’s commission to investigate voter fraud has frustrated not only reporters and senators but now even members of the commission. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Donald Trump dissolves voter fraud commission

President Trump dissolved his voter integrity commission Wednesday and ordered the Homeland Security Department to take up the job instead, in a move his backers said could speed up an investigation of the extent of voter fraud.

January 3, 2018
Thomas Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Associated Press) **FILE**

Judge orders potential release of hundreds of illegals from Iraq

A federal judge in Michigan has ordered the government to give bond hearings in preparation for releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants from Iraq into the community, saying the Constitution protects them from indefinite detention in the U.S.

January 3, 2018
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden prepares to kick off a book tour this week, just as Democrats think about whom they want to ride into the 2020 presidential election. (Associated Press/File)

Schumer to Biden: ‘We need your help’

Was Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer joking when he told former Vice President Joseph R. Biden on Wednesday that Democrats would love to have him back in the saddle in the middle of big negotiations?

January 3, 2018
FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2017 file photo, April Soasti, 9, front, and her sister Adriana, 7, stand with other community members after the president announced the plan to repeal of the Deferred Action in Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on Tuesday. Six immigrants brought to the United States as children who became teachers, graduate students and a lawyer are suing the Trump administration over its decision to end DACA, which is shielding them from deportation. (Stephanie Zollshan/The Berkshire Eagle via AP, File)

Former DHS chiefs say DACA deadline is mid-January

Three former Homeland Security secretaries fired off a letter Wednesday insisting Congress's deadline for granting legal status to illegal immigrant "Dreamers" is actually this month, not the March 5 phaseout date set by President Trump.

January 3, 2018
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, speaks to reporters following a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, in this Nov. 27, 2917, file photo. Hatch says he is retiring after four decades in Senate. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Orrin Hatch to retire at end of 2018

The longest-serving Senate Republican announced Tuesday that he will retire at the end of this term, closing out one of the most impressive legislative careers in modern congressional times -- and opening the door for a Trump critic to win the seat.

January 2, 2018
Opponents of President Trump say it is beyond the power of any president to pardon a public official who violated the Constitution and accuses him of bullying. (Associated Press)

Joe Arpaio pardon still rubs Trump opponents wrong

President Trump used his pardon powers sparingly in his first year in office, but one he did issue remains intensely controversial, with some of his political opponents now asking a federal appeals court to rule it invalid.

December 31, 2017
President Trump is chasing people away from issues, in part, just by supporting them, pollsters say. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump changes voters’ minds against issues he supports

Obamacare had been deeply unpopular for its entire history, with more voters consistently telling pollsters they opposed the massive health care overhaul that Democrats pushed through Congress in 2010. That is, until President Trump took office.

December 27, 2017