Immigration

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Senate panel skewers Trump officials over migrant family separations

August 1, 2018

by Karoun Demirjian, Nick Miroff | The Washington Post

Trump administration officials defended the rationale for their now-defunct family separation strategy during tense Senate testimony Tuesday, but they did not challenge lawmakers’ assertions that the initiative was a failure.

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G.O.P. Faces Another Midterm Threat as Trump Plays the Shutdown Card

July 30, 2018

by Sheryl Gay Stolberg | The New York Times

Congressional Republicans, already facing a difficult election landscape, confronted a prospect on Sunday they had worked feverishly to avoid: a threat by President Trump to shut down the government over funding for a border wall.

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At Texas border, joy and chaos as U.S. reunites migrant families

July 20, 2018

by Yeganeh Torbati, Loren Elliott | Reuters

Luis Campos, a Dallas attorney, showed up at a Texas immigrant detention facility close to the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday morning expecting to represent a client before an immigration judge.

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Republicans force Democrats to go on record over immigration agency

July 19, 2018

by Kelsey Snell | NPR

House Republicans claimed a political victory Wednesday after the House voted 244-35 in favor of officially supporting the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, a vote intended to force Democrats to take a position amid calls from progressives to abolish the agency.

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Ryan scraps ‘abolish ICE’ vote

July 17, 2018

by Rachael Bade, Kyle Cheney | POLITICO

Speaker Paul Ryan quashed a rank-and-file effort to force Democrats to take a politically toxic vote to abolish the federal government’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, sources familiar with the matter told POLITICO.

Extra

A special edition of the Washington Week Extra

July 13, 2018

A conversation with Robert Costa.

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Tech issues plague U.S. web portal tracking separated children

July 11, 2018

by Yeganeh Torbati, Reade Levinson, Kristina Cooke | Reuters

From the moment it went online in January of 2014, the computer system designed to track unaccompanied immigrant children and process their release has created headaches for the shelter staff, government employees and others who use it, according to interviews with a dozen current and former users, government reports, and congressional testimony.

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Judge rejects Trump request to alter agreement on release of immigrant kids

July 10, 2018

by Josh Gerstein | POLITICO

A federal judge has turned down President Donald Trump's request to alter a decades-old legal settlement to allow long-term detention of children who entered the U.S. illegally with their parents.

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Judge’s order could undercut Trump’s immigrant detention plan

July 3, 2018

by Josh Gerstein | POLITICO

An order a federal judge issued Monday requiring individualized decisions on whether some asylum-seekers can be released into the U.S. poses a new legal threat to President Donald Trump's effort to crack down on migrants crossing the border from Mexico.