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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.
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.
In an outpouring of concern prompted by images and audio of children crying for their parents, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are donating to nonprofit organizations to help families being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. Among those that have generated the most attention is a fundraiser on Facebook started by a Silicon Valley couple, who say they felt compelled to help after they saw a photograph of a Honduran toddler sobbing as her mother was searched by a U.S. border patrol agent.
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listens to an answer to his question of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz and FBI Director Christopher Wray testify during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee to examine Horowitz's report of the FBI's Clinton email probe, on Capitol Hill, Monday, June 18, 2018 in Washington.
Elizabeth Menes makes a point during a platform debate at the Republican Party of Texas convention in San Antonio on June 15, 2018. Elizabeth Menes makes a point during a platform debate at the Republican Party of Texas convention in San Antonio on June 15, 2018.
This Aug. 26, 2017 photo made available by NASA shows Hurricane Harvey over Texas as seen from the International Space Station. "The collective damage done by Atlantic hurricanes in 2017 was well more than half of the entire budget of our Department of Defense," said MIT's Kerry Emanuel.
In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018.
On Father's Day, hundreds of protesters descended on a Texas border outpost where a new tent city has been erected to detain immigrant children, according to NPR. The Trump administration announced the new facility would be opening in Tornillo, Texas - just outside of El Paso - last Thursday.
While dozens of protestors stood outside a Customs and Border Protection processing detention center in McAllen, Texas, in more than 100-degree weather, the officials inside the facility told reporters during their tour that the temperature inside was about 72 degrees. Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, who first visited the South Texas border on June 3, described his second visit as more coordinated for Customs and Border Protection officials who gave the tour.
In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a U.S. Border Patrol agent watches as people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, stand in line at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. less In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a U.S. Border Patrol agent watches as people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, stand in line ... more In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, stand in line at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018.
People gather for a vigil lead by the Families Belong Together campaign on Fathers Day outside U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station calling for the end of family separation on Sunday June, 17, 2018. People gather for a vigil lead by the Families Belong Together campaign on Fathers Day outside U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station calling for the end of family separation on Sunday June, 17, 2018.
From Texas Monthly: "What's Really Happening at the Border " -- an interview with Anne Chandler, "executive director of the Houston office of the nonprofit Tahirih Justice Center, which focuses on helping immigrant women and children, she has been traveling to the border and to detention centers, listening to the parents' stories." What they do: care.
A second sheriff's deputy has died after being shot while an inmate was being transported to a Kansas City courthouse. A second sheriff's deputy has died after being shot while an inmate was being transported to a Kansas City courthouse.
Was a breastfeeding infant really taken from an immigrant mother? The answer to this and other questions about families separated at the border - Last month, U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy of charging migrants in federal criminal court How Trump Diverged From Other Presidents and Embraced a Policy of Separating Migrant Families - WASHINGTON - Almost immediately after President Trump took office, his administration began weighing what for years had been regarded as the nuclear option in the effort to discourage immigrants from unlawfully entering the United States.
Rudy Giuliani says Mueller probe 'might get cleaned up' with 'presidential pardons' in light of Paul Manafort going to jail - In one of his most forceful attacks on the special counsel yet, Rudy Giuliani on Friday claimed the Russia investigation could get "cleaned up" Manafort ordered to jail after witness-tampering charges - A federal judge ordered Paul Manafort to jail Friday over charges he tampered with witnesses while out on bail - a major blow for President Trump's former campaign chairman as he awaits trial on federal conspiracy and money-laundering charges next month.
A new poll of likely voters, commissioned by End Citizens United and conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, shows a single digit contest in the Texas Senate election with Representative Beto O'Rourke trailing Senator Ted Cruz by just six points, 43 to 49 percent with eight percent undecided. Click here to read the full polling memo .
Critics of a Trump administration policy that separates children from their parents when they are detained after crossing the US border are demanding changes to the policy, as this protest in Los Angeles. WASHINGTON: Nearly 2,000 minors were separated from their parents or adult guardians who illegally crossed into the United States over a recent six-week period, officials said on Friday , as debate raged over how to end the deeply controversial practice.
School children carry a crown of flowers for Claudia Gomez Gonzalez a Guatemalan immigrant who was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Texas, during the second day of her wake, in San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala, Friday, June 1, 2018. The young woman, who was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Texas on May 23, had graduated as a forensic accountant but was unable to attend college or find a job, so she had left Guatemala for the U.S., according to her aunt.