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Trump Rejects ’60 Minutes’ Pressure, Promises Border Fixes

President Donald Trump rejected pressure from the 60 Minutes TV show and suggested he would renew policies which allow migrant job-seekers to be prosecuted, even if they bring a child to trigger the 2015 Flores catch-and-release loophole.

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Trump Shuts ‘UAC’ Child-Smuggling Routes

Illegal-immigrant parents are increasingly reluctant to pick up their smuggled “Unaccompanied Alien Children” from agency shelters, forcing officials to transfer many stranded youths to a new overflow shelter in Texas.

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Report: GOP Cuts Funds for Rep. Yoder in Tough Race

GOP leaders have withdrawn $1.2 million in promised campaign funding for Kansas Rep. Kevin Yoder, who is facing a tough reelection race after endorsing a series of job-outsourcing programs in an August vote, according to TheHill.com.

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Report: Trump’s ICE Spikes Deportations in 2018

President Donald Trump’s enforcement officials have sharply boosted the repatriation of non-criminal illegal immigrants in the nine months up to July 2018, according to the Associated Press news service.

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Trump Says Only $1.6 Billion For Border Wall in 2019

President Donald Trump told reporters that Congress would only approve $1.6 billion for a wall in the pending 2019 budget, dashing hopes that Congress would provide $5 billion for a concrete border-wall in 2019.

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Trump Rule Rejects Migrants Who Cannot Speak English

Federal officials will likely reject legal migrants’ requests for visas or green cards if they cannot speak English, says a draft regulation from President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.

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Courts Have Deported Half of Obama’s 2014 Adult Migrants

Federal agents have repatriated 90 percent of the Mexicans and 45 percent of the Central American adults who created the border crisis of 2014, but only a tiny share of the 2014 “Unaccompanied Alien Children,” according to September 2017 data reported by the Department of Homeland Security.

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