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Juan Manuel Montes-Bojorquez, 23, qualified for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection said he violated terms of the program and was subject to deportation.

Feds say deported ‘Dreamer’ lost status, had criminal convictions

Immigrant rights groups think they've found the right case to highlight their battle against President Trump's get-tough immigration policy, but the situation with Dreamer Juan Manuel Montes-Bojorquez is not the clear-cut case of a clean-cut kid being ousted for no good reason.

April 19, 2017
Two tunnels were found in December in an area of warehouses in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico, that led into California. The tunnels were apparently used by the Sinaloa drug cartel to move drugs into the United States. (Associated Press)

John Kelly: Smuggling cartels major threat

Smuggling cartels are now a major threat to the fabric of American society, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly declared Tuesday, saying the international crime syndicates have shown an incredible ability to sneak drugs and people -- and potentially terrorists and dirty bombs -- into the U.S.

April 18, 2017
FILE - In this July 9, 2012, file photo, with wanted posters off to the side, Laura E. Duffy, United States Attorney Southern District of California, and FBI Special Agent in Charge, James L. Turgal, Jr., right, announce the indictments on five suspects involved in the death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in Tucson, Ariz. Mexican authorities have arrested the suspected shooter in the 2010 killing of Terry, whose death exposed a bungled gun-tracking operation by the federal government. In a joint statement issued by Mexico's navy and its federal Attorney General's Office on Thursday, April 13, in Mexico City that the suspect who's name wasn't released in Terry's death was arrested near the border between the states of Sinoloa and Chihuahua, a mountainous region note drug activity. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Mexico arrests suspect in murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent

Mexican authorities said Thursday they've arrested one of the fugitives wanted for the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry -- a shooting that drew new attention to the dangerous border and exposed the Obama administration's botched gun-crimes policy.

April 13, 2017
Former IRS executive Lois G. Lerner. (Associated Press/File)

Lois Lerner says she faced death threats over IRS tea party targeting

Former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner told a federal court this week that she faces the possibility of death threats if her role in the tax agency's tea party targeting becomes public, and asked a judge to forever seal her upcoming deposition in a class-action lawsuit brought by hundreds of groups that were targeted.

April 13, 2017

Sharafat Ali Khan smuggled terrorist-linked immigrants

Federal authorities wrangled a guilty plea Wednesday from a Brazilian man who ran one of the Western Hemisphere's more flagrant alien smuggling operations, sneaking dozens of illegal immigrants from terrorism-connected countries into the U.S. from 2014 to 2016.

April 12, 2017
In this June 22, 2016, file photo, a Border Patrol agent walks along a border structure in San Diego, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, file)

Feds net guilty plea from Middle East alien smuggling mastermind

Federal authorities wrangled a guilty plea Wednesday from a Brazilian man who ran one of the Western Hemisphere's more flagrant alien-smuggling operations, sneaking dozens of illegal immigrants from terrorist-connected countries into the U.S. from 2014 to 2016.

April 12, 2017
Border agents searching cellphones and other electronics without warrants has raised privacy concerns among civil liberties groups and privacy advocates. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

U.S. border guards increase searches of electronic devices

U.S. border officials seized and searched nearly 15,000 computers, phones and tablets over the past six months as the federal government stepped up its traveler surveillance, saying it's just responding to the latest public safety threats.

April 11, 2017
Protesters of President Trump's immigration policies defend San Francisco's sanctuary status. (Associated Press/File)

DHS suspends sanctuary city list after just three weeks

The Homeland Security Department suspended its sanctuary city report after just three weeks, with officials acknowledging Tuesday that they had goofed on some of the data and needed more time to refine the process of figuring out who ends up on the name-and-shame list.

April 11, 2017
Eric C. Conn used these law offices in Stanville, Kentucky, to commit one of the biggest Social Security disability fraud cases in U.S. history. (Associated Press/File)

Eric Conn pleads guilty to Social Security disability fraud

A ringleader in one of the biggest Social Security disability fraud cases in U.S. history has pleaded guilty to filing more than 1,700 bogus applications, bilking the government out of potentially a half-billion dollars.

April 10, 2017
Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is among a small but vocal group of lawmakers who say President Trump's missile strikes were illegal and insisted that any military action against a government that hasn't attacked the U.S. must get congressional approval first. (Associated Press)

Rand Paul urges AUMF before Trump military action

Sen. Rand Paul sounded one of the more discordant notes last week after President Trump's retaliatory missile strike against the Syrian regime, suggesting it was ill-advised and illegal, and insisting Congress needs to get involved.

April 9, 2017