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Photos of migrant detention highlight Biden’s border secrecy

By Nomaan Merchant, Jonathan Lemire, Josh Boak, Associated Press

The new images show immigrant teenagers sleeping on mats in crowded conditions, separated in groups by plastic partitions.

WATCH: Pelosi says Biden has border situation under control

By Will Weissert, Associated Press

The Biden administration is responding to a wave of children crossing the southern border into the U.S. with some of the very tactics that evoked moral outrage from Democrats when former President Donald Trump embraced them.

Homeland Security chief defends U.S. handling of border crossings

By Ben Fox, Associated Press

The Biden administration's head of Homeland Security is defending a policy of allowing unaccompanied children crossing the southwest border to remain in the U.S.

Children packed into Border Patrol tent facility for days on end

By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press

President Joe Biden's administration is refusing to allow lawyers who inspect facilities where immigrant children are detained to enter a Border Patrol tent in Texas where agents are holding hundreds of youths.

U.S. reports surge of children at southwest border, a challenge for Biden

By Ben Fox, Associated Press

The number of kids crossing by themselves has risen 60 percent to more than 9,400, forcing the government to look for new places to hold them amid the pandemic.

U.S. tries to expedite release of migrant children amid surge

By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press

With its long-term facilities for immigrant children nearly full, the Biden administration is working to expedite the release of children to their relatives in the U.S.

News Wrap: U.S. imposes new sanctions on Iran

In our news wrap Wednesday, the U.S. imposed another round of sanctions on Iran, targeting the country’s intelligence minister and a charity that’s allegedly a regime slush fund. The move comes after a United Nations agency reported centrifuges at Iran’s…

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Judge orders U.S. to stop deporting children who cross border alone

By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan issued a preliminary injunction sought by legal groups suing on behalf of children whom the government sought to expel before they could request protections.

WATCH: House Homeland Security Committee holds hearing on migrant children health in CBP custody

By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press

Joseph Cuffari, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general, testified before the House Homeland Security Committee regarding the deaths of Jakelin Caal and Felipe Gomez Alonzo.

Judge: US must free migrant children from family detention

By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press

A federal judge has ordered the release of children held with their parents in U.S. immigration jails and denounced the Trump administration’s prolonged detention of families during the coronavirus pandemic.