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A U.S. judge appeared skeptical of some of the Trump administration's key arguments for seeking to block three California laws intended to protect immigrants, questioning the scope of federal power over immigration during a lengthy court hearing on Wednesday. Judge John Mendez warned at the end of the roughly five-hour session during which he pressed lawyers for both sides not to read too much into his questions, saying he sometimes played "devil's advocate."
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan , Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Republican Kevin Brady and House Majority Leader Republican Kevin McCarthy enter a news conference with House Republican leadership on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on June 20, 2018. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan , Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Republican Kevin Brady and House Majority Leader Republican Kevin McCarthy enter a news conference with House Republican leadership on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on June 20, 2018.
The AP toured a holding facility in South Texas that's holding hundreds of immigrant children. While reporters were not allowed to record the tour, video released by border patrol shows them waiting in a series of cages created by metal fencing.
President Donald Trump has ordered an end to the separation of migrant children from their parents on the U.S. border, reversing a tough policy under heavy pressure from his fellow Republicans, Democrats and the international community. The spectacular about-face comes after more than 2,300 children were stripped from their parents and adult relatives after illegally crossing the border since May 5 and placed in tent camps and other facilities, with no way to contact their relatives.
The current crisis of the family-separation immigration policy is a prominent news story and beckons responses from our elected officials about their position on a situation where minor children of all ages have been and are continuing to be forcibly removed from their parents.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., joined by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., left, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, talks following a closed-door conference with fellow Republicans at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2018. A sweeping House GOP immigration overhaul teetered on the brink of collapse Thursday as lawmakers struggled to move past an issue that has become politically fraught amid the dire images of families being separated at the border.
Bloomberg, a Republican who owns an estate in North Salem, has pledged to donate $80 million to help flip the U.S. House majority in favor of Democrats. Bloomberg also says he will support governors in November -- regardless of their political party -- who share his positions on gun control, climate change, education and other polarizing issues that he thinks are dividing the nation and causing legislative gridlock.
One of El Salvador's top diplomats Wednesday described conditions at shelters for migrant children in the United States as "totally inadequate," blasted the Trump administration's family-separation policy and warned that migrants should seriously consider any decision to travel north.
President Donald Trump's reversal of a policy separating migrant families at the Mexico border sparked confusion over how the new guidelines will play out and deep concern that the changes don't go far enough, allowing children to still be held in detention even if they remain with their families. "We are pleased that the president is calling a halt to his inhumane and heartless policy of separating parents from their children," said Peter Schey, the lawyer in a lawsuit that resulted in a key agreement governing the treatment of migrant children in detention called the Flores settlement.
From left, Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., Trump, and Re... . Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., joined by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., left, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, talks following a closed-door conference with fellow Rep... .
In signing an executive order Wednesday, President Donald Trump said he was ending the practice of separating children from parents who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. "We are keeping families together," he said.
President Donald Trump has attended a raucous rally to defend his hard-line immigration policies hours after signing an executive order to end the forced separations of migrant families. Mr Trump downplayed the crisis that has threatened to envelop the White House amid days of images of children being pulled from their immigrant parents along the nation's southern border.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., speaks as he is joined by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, second from left, and other House Democrats calling for passage of the Keep Families Together Act, legislation to end the Trump Administration's policy of separating families at the US-Mexico border, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2018. As the White House struggles to move past another self-imposed crisis, Democrats are fighting to ensure this one isn't quickly forgotten.
A leading bank CEO condemned the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy that led to more children and parents being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, as did a New York nonprofit co-led by another big-bank chief. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday ending the family separations but other immigration issues remained unresolved.
In a photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the U.S. rest in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen on Sunday. People gather at Texas Woman's University in preparation for a march to the Square to show support for making the university a "sanctuary campus" for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally in December 2016.
President Trump has reversed his zero tolerance immigration policy with an executive order that will stop agents from separating children and parents detained at the border. Immigrant advocates applauded President Trump's decision on Wednesday to end the separation of migrant families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally but fear a return to long detentions while the families' appeals for asylum are decided.
As a crisis of migrant children separated from their families provoked national outrage, President Donald Trump said he was powerless to act through an executive order. Five days later, he did just that.
Strauss, who died in 2005, and is now accused of sexual mis... Trump supporters steadfast even as photos of children in cages and audio of terrified children crying out for their parents stoked outrage. Trump supporters steadfast even as photos of children in cages and audio of terrified children crying out for their parents stoked outrage.
Three U.S. airlines said Wednesday they don't want the government to use them to assist in some parts of immigration enforcement, in the latest protest to the family separation situation on the border. American, United and Frontier airlines , which have contracts with Homeland Security to fly people in immigration detention, said they have no idea if they are being used for the purpose - but lodged their objections anyway.
In the end, the decision seemed inevitable. After a seven-day trial in Kansas City federal court in March, in which Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach needed to be tutored on basic trial procedure by the judge and was found in contempt for his "willful failure" to obey a ruling, even he knew his chances were slim.