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Erica Leyva with the Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network of San Jose, California, carries a message outside a courthouse in San Francisco where a federal judge heard arguments in a lawsuit challenging President Trump's executive order to withhold funding from communities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities. (Associated Press/File)

Illegal immigrants coached on deportation protection

A massive anti-deportation infrastructure has emerged to try to protect illegal immigrants from President Trump's crackdown, with advocacy groups coaching potential deportees on how to massage encounters with police, and lawyers and judges working to shield them from charges that would make them priorities for deportation.

April 24, 2017
Former President Barack Obama hosts a conversation on civic engagement and community organizing, Monday, April 24, 2017, at the University of Chicago in Chicago. It's the former president's first public event of his post-presidential life in the place where he started his political career. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Obama says immigration opponents aren’t ‘automatically racist’

Former President Obama told his supporters Monday that they shouldn't immediately assume that someone who wants stricter enforcement of immigration laws is "automatically racist," as he called for a new understanding and engagement in American political life.

April 24, 2017
Diana Mejia, center, an activist with Winds of the Spirit N.J., is carried by Elizabeth Police officers while being arrested during an immigration protest outside of a detention center, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in Elizabeth, N.J. Mejia and four other activists were taken into custody during the rally. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Illegal immigrants coached on how to avoid deportation

Immigrant-rights groups released a new video Monday coaching illegal immigrants on their constitutional rights and how to avoid run-ins with federal deportation agents, as advocates gear up to try to thwart as many deportations as possible.

April 24, 2017
Naturalization ceremonies have been canceled because of a backlog of applications at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. (Associated Press)

Naturalization delay prevents new citizens from voting

Legal immigrants lined up to apply for U.S. citizenship ahead of last year's election, but the Obama administration let them down, as the agency responsible for approving applications botched the process, leaving tens of thousands of eligible people stuck in limbo.

April 23, 2017
Demonstrators at Los Angeles International Airport showed support for President Trump's executive order banning travel to the U.S. from seven primarily Muslim nations. (Associated Press)

DOJ to judge: Trump is no lawyer, ignore his ‘Muslim ban’ comments

President Trump's lawyers told a federal judge Friday that he's not a legal expert and his comments on his extreme vetting executive orders can't be taken as gospel truth, as the administration sought to head off yet another legal black eye over his six-country travel ban.

April 21, 2017
The Obama administration left the government’s deportation force in disarray, according to a new report Thursday from the Homeland Security inspector general. The report said deportation officers are so overloaded that they lose track of important cases, leaving illegal immigrants roaming communities when they could have been kicked out. The problem is so bad that officers may even be losing track of critical national security cases, the inspector general said. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Deportation officers have too many cases, says report from Homeland Security

The Obama administration left the government's deportation force in disarray, according to a new report Thursday from the Homeland Security inspector general. The report said deportation officers are so overloaded that they lose track of important cases, leaving illegal immigrants roaming communities when they could have been kicked out.

April 20, 2017
President Trump's budget demands for border wall funding mark a reversal for the administration, which had been saying it found enough money to build prototypes this year and wouldn’t need a major infusion of cash until next year. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump wants border wall funds in must-pass spending bill

The White House said Thursday that it wants to see money for President Trump's border wall included in the spending bill Congress must pass next week -- a demand Democrats said sours negotiations and makes a government shutdown more likely.

April 20, 2017
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent escorts a handcuffed undocumented immigrant convicted of a felony that was taken into custody during an operation in Dallas on March 6, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

DHS can’t keep up, leaves risky illegals out on the streets: Probe

The Obama administration left the government's deportation force in disarray, according to a new report Thursday from the Homeland Security inspector general, which found deportation officers are so overloaded that they lose track of important cases, leaving illegal immigrants roaming communities when they could have been kicked out.

April 20, 2017
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