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The detention of adults for prosecution as illegal immigrants required them to be separated from children apprehended by Customs and Border Patrol, who by law and by earlier Supreme Court decisions can not be detained in facilities intended for adults. The outcomes were not just...

Republicans on Capitol Hill frantically searched on Tuesday (June 19) for ways to end the administration’s policy of separating families after illegal border crossings, ahead of a visit from President Donald Trump to discuss broader immigration legislation.

“Nobody knows how much we are paying for this monstrosity that’s been created over the years”, he said.

“Nobody knows how much we are paying for this monstrosity that’s been created over the years”, he said.

For some, agents said, processing comes not with one of the 10 permanent processing agents but with virtual ones – video chats with agents in El Paso, En Centro or Corpus Christi – an effort to provide support for a system they say is understaffed. “They said...

“I think BJP has its own calculations”. We still don’t have the mandate.

“(President Donald Trump) could pick up the phone and stop the separation of families seeking refuge in the US.

“You look at what’s happening in Europe, you look at what’s happening in other places”.

Pelosi’s contempt for President Donald Trump’s immigration policy erupted outside the sun-baked Capitol after the President announced earlier in the morning that the Republican compromise bill brokered by House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Trumps’ own advisers, was...

The separation of immigrant parents and their children at US’ southern border has turned into a topic of intense debate in recent days, with even First Lady Melania Trump commenting against it.

A top White House adviser on Sunday attempted to distance the administration from responsibility for separating migrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border, even though the administration put in place and could easily end a policy that has led to a spike in cases...

There are no winners in Thursday’s release of the 500-page Justice Department inspector general report on the FBI’s actions during the 2016 election.

Republicans announced that they planned to vote next week on a pair of immigration bills, but Democrats have indicated they are solidly opposed to both of those proposals.

The separations were not broken down by age, and they included separations for illegal entry, immigration violations or possible criminal conduct by the adult.

Trump has claimed repeatedly that while it pains him to watch children wrenched from their mothers, it’s only Democratic intransigence that prevents him from ending a policy he personally put into motion, and could halt at any time.