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Irsi Castillo of Honduras holds her 3-year-old daughter just after crossing the Rio Grande into the U.S. at El Paso, Texas. Castillo is one in the surge of thousands of migrants claiming asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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With Thousands Of Migrants Crossing The Border Daily, We Asked 'Why Now?'

8:23pm March 21, 2019

by Joel Rose

Three possible factors account for the surge of migrants at the border: economics, social media and the Trump administration's own tougher immigration policies.

At a public forum at VietAID in Dorchester, Mass., Vietnamese immigrants learn more about changes to immigration policies under President Trump.

40 Years After The Vietnam War, Some Refugees Face Deportation Under Trump

11:33am March 04, 2019

by Shannon Dooling

The Trump administration is trying to convince Vietnam to repatriate some 7,000 Vietnamese immigrants with criminal convictions who have been in the United States for more than 30 years.

Politics & Government

Supreme Court To Decide Fate Of World War I Memorial Cross On Public Land

5:17am February 27, 2019

by Nina Totenberg

The American Humanist Association is challenging the existence of a 40-foot cross on government-owned land, but the Trump administration hopes a newly conservative majority will agree to let it stand.

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U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer discusses the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement as President Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin look on Oct. 1, 2018. Lighthizer is now the chief U.S. negotiator in trade talks with China.

'Expect Change': Robert Lighthizer Is Trump's Hardball-Playing China Trade Negotiator

5:06am February 21, 2019

by Jim Zarroli

The U.S. Trade Representative has spent his career warning about the problems and perils of global trade. Now, as the chief U.S. negotiator with China, he's in a position to do something about it.

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A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier delivers the mail in Shelbyville, Ky. A White House task force recommended ending the mailbox monopoly held by USPS.

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Your Mailbox Could Be Opened Up To Private Carriers

8:07am February 02, 2019

by Emily Sullivan

By law, only you and the Postal Service are allowed to put things in your mailbox. But what if companies like FedEx and UPS could do it too? That could happen under a Trump administration proposal.

The ship Hammersmith Bridge, foreground, which has just arrived from Shanghai in China, unloads Chinese shipping containers at the Port of Long Beach, in Los Angeles County, on September 29, 2018.

U.S. Opens Trade Talks With China

6:21pm January 30, 2019

by Scott Horsley

President Trump has threatened to increase and expand on about $250 billion in tariffs, but he agreed to hold off until early March, while negotiators try to hammer out a deal.

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Honduran asylum seekers enter the U.S. at San Diego's Otay Mesa port of entry, as seen from Tijuana, Mexico.

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U.S. Plans To Enforce 'Remain In Mexico' Policy on Central American Asylum Seekers

10:37pm January 24, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

The plan, expected to meet with a swift legal challenge, comes out of talks with Mexican officials. The administration plans to roll it out first at the San Ysidro, Calif., port of entry.

Demonstrators protest against the government shutdown in Boston on Friday.

D.C. Judge Tells Furloughed Workers They Must Stay On The Job

9:56pm January 15, 2019

by Daniella Cheslow

About 400,000 federal workers are called "excepted" and are required to work without pay. They sued for an injunction that would end that requirement, but the judge said no.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, pictured in August during a meeting at the Pentagon, will step down from his position on Feb. 28.

READ: Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' Letter Announcing His Resignation

10:11pm December 20, 2018

by Nicole Hernandez

"Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours ... I believe it is right for me to step down from my position," Mattis wrote to the president.

People line up to cross into the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, seen through barriers topped with concertina wire at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego. A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the administration from enforcing a ban on asylum-see

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Another Legal Setback To The Trump Administration's Effort To Crack Down On Asylum

7:39pm December 19, 2018

by John Burnett

In June, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a ban on asylum-seekers fleeing gang violence or domestic abuse. A federal judge on Wednesday blocked that ban, saying it had "no legal basis."