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Government kept tabs on journalists, 'instigators'

By Associated Press

The U.S. government kept a database on journalists, activists, organizers and "instigators" during an investigation into last year's migrant caravan from Mexico, infuriating civil liberties and media groups.

Guidelines ask agents to target Spanish speakers at border

By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

Border agents have been told to explicitly target Spanish speakers and migrants from Latin America in carrying out a Trump administration program requiring asylum seekers wait in Mexico, according to memos obtained by The Associated Press.

Novelist Valeria Luiselli on writing to document 'political violence'

The U.S. is reportedly experiencing illegal immigration at the highest rates since 2007, with significant increases in the number of unaccompanied minors. It is these child migrants who are the subject of Valeria Luiselli’s book “Lost Children Archive.” Luiselli talks…

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WATCH: Crisis on southern border is not 'manufactured,' Nielsen says

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told a House committee that the U.S. faces "a real, serious, and sustained crisis" at the U.S.-Mexico border.

WATCH: Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearing on human trafficking at U.S. southern border

By Associated Press

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan is among those scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the agency's response to people smuggling at the southern border.

WATCH: Kirstjen Nielsen testifies on border security, future of border wall

The hearing was rescheduled from February when Nielsen said she was not available to testify.

Analysis: GOP senators struggle to escape no-win border vote

By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

It’s increasingly clear that Republican senators are deeply uncomfortable with President Trump’s use of executive power to build a border wall and desperate to devise a way around a looming vote that could terminate it.

4 senators push resolution to halt Trump's border emergency

By Alan Fram, David Sharp, Associated Press

A small bipartisan group of senators planned to introduce a resolution Thursday aimed at blocking President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to finance additional miles of barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.