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Immigration

• Once a fence, later slats, almost always a wall: Trump's border wall contradictions
  Mexico was going to pay for it. Now President Trump claims he never said that. Trump has reversed himself multiple times about a signature campaign promise, now the center of a government shutdown.January 11, 2019
• Trump administration eyes disaster money to fund border wall
  The White House has directed the Army Corps of Engineers to comb through its budget, including $13.9 billion in emergency funds that Congress earmarked last year, to see what money could be diverted to the wall as part of a declaration.January 11, 2019
• At the border, Trump moves closer to emergency declaration
  President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress if he can't reach a deal with Democrats to fund his promised border wall.January 10, 2019
• Border residents remain skeptical about the need for an expanded wall
  Residents along the Southern border with Mexico are not convinced that a longer and strengthened barrier will have much of an impact on their own safety and on border security.January 10, 2019
• Two Minnesota attorneys' trip to the border captures 18-hour standoff with officials
  People seeking asylum on the U.S. border with Mexico often go without legal representation -- and are turned away. So two Minnesota attorneys took a trip to the southern border in December to represent those asylum seekers.January 10, 2019
• 7 takeaways from President Trump's Oval Office address
  For all the formality of an Oval Office address, the partial shutdown is no closer to being over, and Democrats and Republicans are living in very different worlds when it comes to immigration policy.January 9, 2019
• Fact check: Trump and the disputed border crisis
  In his prime-time speech to the nation, President Trump declared a border crisis that's in sharp dispute, wrongly accused Democrats of refusing to pay for border security and ignored the reality of how drugs come into the country as he pitched his wall as a solution to varied ills.January 9, 2019
• DOJ, largely shut down, nonetheless issued statements on southern border cases
  The department's public affairs apparatus is mostly idle for lack of funding, but that didn't stop it from making announcements in support of the administration's messaging about immigrants.January 8, 2019
• Fact check: Can Trump use emergency powers to build the wall?
  President Trump has suggested that if he can't reach a compromise with congressional Democrats over funding for border security, he might invoke presidential powers instead. What could Congress do?January 8, 2019
• Trump, Democrats taking border wall fight to prime-time TV
  Trump's Oval Office speech Tuesday -- his first as president -- will be followed by his visit Thursday to the southern border to highlight his demand for a barrier.January 8, 2019
• Judge orders Iraqi man released after long detention
  A federal judge ordered Monday that 35-year-old Farass Adnan Ali be released within 30 days. Ali has been in custody on immigration charges for 18 months.January 7, 2019
• AP-NORC Poll: Immigration among the top concerns in 2019
  As much of the U.S. government remains shut down over President Donald Trump's insistence on funding for his border wall, nearly half of Americans identify immigration as a top issue for the government to work on this year.January 4, 2019
• Rhodes scholar and 'Dreamer' fears he can't return to U.S.
  He became the first "Dreamer" to win the prestigious Rhodes scholarship. The 22-year-old, who lives in New York City, risks not being allowed back in the country if he enrolls at the University of Oxford in England in the fall.January 4, 2019
• Troops to be deployed to border to build and upgrade 160 miles of fencing
  The Department of Homeland Security has asked the Pentagon to provide additional active-duty troops on the Southern border. They will upgrade or add 160 miles of fencing in Arizona and California.January 3, 2019
• U.S. agents fire tear gas at migrants trying to cross Mexico border
  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.January 2, 2019

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