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This image provided by Gleason Partners LLC shows a rendering of the side of a border wall concept that faces the U.S. that incorporates solar panels into the design. President Donald Trump wants to add solar panels to his long-promised southern border wall — a plan he says would help pay for the wall's construction and add to its aesthetic appeal. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump considers solar panels on border wall

President Trump took a further step back this week from his pledge to force Mexico to pay for the border wall, instead saying he is considering sticking solar panels on top of the fence and selling the energy to help fund the costs.

June 22, 2017
A police officer enters California Investment Immigration Fund in San Gabriel, Calif., Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Federal authorities on Wednesday raided the Los Angeles-area business they say cheated a U.S. government visa program to obtain green cards for wealthy Chinese investors. (AP Photo/Rich Vogel

1.4 million illegals working under stolen Social Security numbers: Audit

Most illegal immigrants who pay taxes have stolen someone else's legal identity, and the IRS doesn't do a very good job of letting those American citizens and illegal immigrants know they're being impersonated, the tax agency's inspector general said in a new report released Thursday.

June 22, 2017
Young women in many cases have survived harrowing journeys north, some of them pregnant from being raped along the way. They are entitled under law to medical care, which can mean abortion — sometimes at taxpayer expense. (Associated Press/File)

30% of border children have gang ties

Nearly 30 percent of the illegal immigrant children the U.S. is currently holding in its secure dormitories have ties to criminal gangs, the government revealed Wednesday, suggesting the Obama-era surge of Central Americans has fed the country's growing problem with MS-13 and other gangs.

June 21, 2017
Eric C. Conn, seen here in a photo issued by the FBI, is accused of attempting to bilk the federal government with more than $500 million worth of bogus Social Security disability applications.

Conn disability fraud victims now face new scam

Not only did an unscrupulous lawyer file bogus disability applications for them, but now some clients of Eric C. Conn are the targets of a phone scam looking to bilk them out of more money, federal officials said Wednesday.

June 21, 2017
In this April 25, 2017 photo, Stephen Faulkner, middle, owner of Faulkner's Landscaping & Nursery, installs an irrigation system alongside his workers Gonsalo Garcia, left, and Jalen Murchison, right, at a landscape project in Manchester, N.H. Innkeepers, restaurateurs and landscapers around the U.S. say they’re struggling to find seasonal help and turning down business in some cases because the government tightened up on visas for temporary foreign workers. At issue are H-2B visas, which are issued for seasonal, nonagricultural jobs. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

DHS will grant more seasonal visas, number still uncertain

Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly has decided to issue a "limited number" of seasonal guest worker visas, the department announced Wednesday, though they still don't have a total and won't begin to issue them until late July.

June 21, 2017
Khloe Marogi, 8, wore a T-shirt with her detained father's photo on it at a rally on Friday in Detroit to protest the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in which 114 Iraqi nationals in Metro Detroit were arrested and held for deportation. Her father, 50-year-old Dorid Marogi, is a Catholic Chaldean who has lived in the U.S. since he was 2 years old. (Associated Press)

Iraqi criminal deportations mean persecution

They are convicted murderers, rapists, burglars and drug traffickers whom the Trump administration is trying to kick out of the country -- yet a massive backlash has formed, with activists saying if the people are sent back home they face persecution and potentially death at the hands of a hostile populace and an uncaring government.

June 20, 2017
The Supreme Court in Washington is seen here on April 4, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Supreme Court to hear major political redistricting case

The Supreme Court added another thorny political case to its docket next term, agreeing Monday to rule on whether Wisconsin's legislative districts are so politically loaded that they violate the Constitution.

June 19, 2017
In this Friday, June 16, 2017, file photo President Donald Trump speaks about Cuba policy in Miami. The Trump Organization dissolved subsidiaries created to pursue business opportunities in Qatar six days after Donald Trump was inaugurated as America’s 45th president. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Donald Trump’s immigration policies keep advocates on their toes

President Trump has confounded immigrant-rights advocates, who weren't quite sure how to react last week after his Homeland Security secretary nixed a potential deportation amnesty for 4 million people, but left in place the 2012 amnesty that has allowed nearly 800,000 Dreamers to live and work in the country free of fear of deportation.

June 18, 2017