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Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., walks to a bipartisan negotiation meeting Monday over securing the U.S. Southern border and keeping the U.S. government from shutting down.

Politics & Government

Days From Another Shutdown, Here's What The Negotiators Are Facing

6:58pm February 11, 2019

Bipartisan negotiators are working on a border security funding deal — but both sides are still sorting out what kind of "wall" or "barrier" is in and whether President Trump will sign it.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra was tapped to give the Spanish language response to the president's State of the Union address by top congressional Democratic leaders.

Politics & Government

California Attorney General Vows To Sue If Trump Uses Emergency Powers To Build Wall

11:39pm February 05, 2019

by Meg Anderson

Xavier Becerra argued in the Spanish language response to the president's speech that it would be illegal for the administration to declare a national emergency to pay to build a border wall.

A steel barrier runs along the U.S.-Mexico border near Calexico, Calif. Bipartisan negotiators on Capitol Hill are discussing what kind of physical barriers are needed and how much Congress should spend to address national security issues at the Southwest

Politics & Government

Border Security Talks Begin On Capitol Hill With Signs of Narrow Bipartisan Deal

8:20pm January 30, 2019

by Susan Davis

House and Senate lawmakers formally kicked off negotiations over funding the Department of Homeland Security, facing a Feb. 15 deadline for a spending bill Trump will sign to avoid another shutdown.

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A Border Patrol officer inside his vehicle guards the fence near San Diego across the border from Tijuana, Mexico.

Troops To Be Deployed To Border To Build And Upgrade 160 Miles Of Fencing

11:44pm January 03, 2019

by Tom Bowman

The Department of Homeland Security has asked the Pentagon to provide additional active-duty troops to work on barriers in Arizona and California.

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Migrants run as tear gas is thrown by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to the Mexican side of the border fence after they climbed the fence to get to San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico.

U.S. Agents Fire Tear Gas At Migrants Trying To Cross Mexico Border

1:34pm January 02, 2019

by Daniella Cheslow

U.S. Customs and Border Protection authorities say they fired tear gas to deter about 150 Central American migrants from climbing over or under the U.S.-Mexico border fence into California.

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A new report released by the Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog found that doctors were not properly vetted, putting immigrants and U.S. citizens at risk.

Doctors With Criminal Records Examined Immigrants, Report Says

7:43pm September 25, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

Internal investigators at DHS said 132 doctors employed to examine immigrants could pose health or safety risks. Before he was hired, one physician tried to recruit a hit man to kill a patient.

Immigrants walk into a building at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

National

Parents Were 'Coerced' To Waive Reunification Rights With Children, Complaint Says

9:39pm August 23, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

Lawyers for immigrants filed a complaint on Thursday with Homeland Security. They contend that parents, amid cruel treatment, did not understand the forms they were being forced to sign.

President Trump in January 2018. On Friday, a federal judge ruled the administration has not provided adequate justification for ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Judge Orders Trump Administration To Fully Restore DACA

10:52pm August 03, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

It's the third federal court to rule that the government had failed to justify its decision to end the program. The administration has 20 days to appeal, before immigrant protections are reinstated.

U.S. Can't Issue Blanket Denial To Asylum-Seeking Iranians, Judge Rules

2:19pm July 12, 2018

by Deborah Amos

Nearly 90 Iranians expecting to be resettled in the U.S. have been stranded in Vienna. Their asylum requests were denied en masse, and now a judge says the government must give each person a reason.

Folders full of immigration paperwork line the shelves of Faisal Alhashadi's office in New York City. An immigration specialist who works in the Bronx, Alhashadi has been advocating on behalf of Yemeni nationals visiting and living in the U.S.

Trump Administration Renews Temporary Protected Status For Some Yemenis

8:43pm July 05, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The move, which gives another 18 months of protection from deportation, comes after the Department of Homeland Security declined to do so for nationals from several other countries in the past year.