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Illegal immigration spikes in July; still lower than Obama years

Illegal immigration across the southwest border surged 15 percent in July compared to the month before, Homeland Security announced Tuesday, signaling that President Trump's early success in stemming the flow of people jumping the border has begun to lessen.

August 8, 2017
President Donald Trump listens as Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., speaks during a meeting with the Republican Study Committee, Friday, March 17, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Mark Walker: GOP can’t allow ‘clean’ debt increase

A leading congressional conservative said Republicans must not approve a "clean" debt increase later this year, saying it would be a betrayal of piled-up promises to voters to finally get a handle on the federal budget.

August 8, 2017
In this Jan. 13, 2010, file photo, two young wild horses play while grazing in Reno, Nev. Wild horse advocates say President Trump's new budget proposal would undermine protection of an icon of the American West in place for nearly a half century and could send up sending thousands of free-roaming mustangs to slaughter houses in Canada and Mexico. (Andy Barron/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP) ** FILE **

Federal court orders restoration of 23,000 acres for wild horses

A federal appeals court has delivered a victory to wild horse enthusiasts, ordering the U.S. Forest Service to restore 23,000 acres of critical land as protected horse country in California — and showed judges taking an increasingly dim view of agencies' decision-making.

August 6, 2017
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, points to a poster with an image of barrier on the Texas-Mexico border as he talks to reporters about border security, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, on Capitol Hill Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Illegals from border surge cared for by HHS: Audit

After a rough start, federal social workers are now doing a better job of keeping tabs on the illegal immigrant children under their care from the Obama-era border surge, including making efforts to follow up with the children and their sponsors to make sure they're being treated well, according to a government audit released Thursday.

August 3, 2017
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., joined by Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., left, pauses as he holds his first news conference since the Republican health care bill collapsed last week due to opposition within the GOP ranks, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, on Capitol Hill Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans leave Donald Trump with no major legislative wins

Republicans haven't scored a marquee legislative win for President Trump, but as they prepare to leave Capitol Hill for their summer vacation, they insist they have made serious gains on many nuts-and-bolts bills to reshape the government.

August 3, 2017

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August 3, 2017
President Barack Obama gestures as he answers questions during his news conference at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Lima, Peru, on Nov. 20, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama’s IRS ‘misled’ Obamacare customers: Audit

The Obama administration "misled" Americans into thinking signing up for Obamacare would be cheaper than it really was, according to an inspector general's report Thursday that said the IRS dramatically understated the actual cost of enrolling.

August 3, 2017
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Kevin Corsaro speaks with an unidentified motorist entering the United States from Canada at the border in Buffalo, N.Y., on June 6, 2006. (Associated Press) **FILE**

DHS says Canadian border safe; drug trafficking is biggest threat

America's northern border with Canada remains safe, with illegal immigration barely a blip and the biggest terrorism danger being homegrown radical Canadians attempting to enter the U.S. legally, the Homeland Security Department said Thursday.

August 3, 2017
In this June 22, 2016, file photo, Border Patrol agent Eduardo Olmos walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico, background, and San Diego in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Donald Trump kept at arm’s length on border wall decisions

President Trump gets updates on his proposed border wall but his suggestions won't affect the design and he's being kept in the dark about the prototypes being contemplated, per federal contracting rules, a Homeland Security spokesman said Wednesday.

August 2, 2017
Former Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, who started work this week as President Trump's chief of staff, signed waivers for three dozen laws, saying Congress has given his department exemptions when a critical border security mission is at stake. (Associated Press/File)

John Kelly waived laws for Donald Trump’s border wall

The administration said Tuesday that it will have to waive federal law protecting bald and golden eagles as well as dozens of other iconic environmental and American Indian protection statutes in order to begin building President Trump's border wall in San Diego this year.

August 1, 2017
In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. Advocacy groups said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are rounding up people in large numbers around the country, with roundups in Southern California being especially heavy-handed, as part of stepped-up enforcement under President Donald Trump. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)

Immigrants are 22 percent of federal prison population

A stunning 22 percent of the federal prison population is immigrants who have either already been deemed to be in the country illegally or who the government is looking to put in deportation proceedings, the administration said Tuesday.

August 1, 2017
In this May 1, 2008, file photo, U.S. District Judge Judge Royce C. Lamberth is seen during a ceremony at the federal courthouse in Washington. Judge Lamberth on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Judge mocks opponents of Trump voter commission

A federal judge Tuesday shot down the latest attempt to derail President Trump's voter integrity commission, saying there wasn't enough evidence that Americans' rights are being violated by the request for voters' information.

August 1, 2017
In this Oct. 21, 2014 file photo, people opposed to child sex trafficking rally outside of the Washington state Supreme Court in Olympia, Wash. The Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015, in favor of three young girls who sued Backpage.com, claiming they were sold as prostitutes on the site. Thursday's ruling says the Communications Decency Act does not protect Backpage from state lawsuits because there's enough evidence to show that it didn't just host the ads, but helped develop the content. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte/ File)

Senators introduce bill to combat online sex trafficking ads

Senators introduce legislation Tuesday that would allow sex trafficking victims to sue websites they blame for helping their traffickers, and would free federal, state and local law enforcement to go after them more freely.

August 1, 2017