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As seen from a window outside the Oval Office, President Donald Trump gives a prime-time address about border security Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2018, at the White House in Washington.

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Fact check: Trump and the disputed border crisis

by Calvin Woodward Associated Press, and Colleen Long Associated PressJanuary 9, 2019

In this Oct. 22, 2018, photo U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surround and detain a person during a raid in Richmond, Va. ICE's enforcement and removal operations, like the five-person field office team outside Richmond, hunt people in the U.S. illegally, some of whom have been here for decades, working and raising families. Carrying out President Donald Trump's hard-line immigration policies has exposed ICE to unprecedented public scrutiny and criticism, even though...

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Under Trump, ICE is face of hard-line immigration policy

by Colleen Long Associated PressDecember 30, 2018

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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US says migrants will wait in Mexico after claiming asylum

by Colleen Long Associated Press, and Mark Stevenson Associated PressDecember 20, 2018

FILE- This Jan. 20, 2012, file photo, near Cloverdale in New Mexico's Bootheel region shows a gated part of the Diamond A Ranch and is 77 miles south of Lordsburg, N.M., the nearest U.S. Border Patrol station. A 7-year-old Guatemalan girl, picked up with her father and dozens of other migrants along the remote stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border, has died, federal officials said Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)

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7-year-old in good health, border agents said; then she died

by Colleen Long Associated Press, and Elliot Spagat Associated PressDecember 14, 2018

Migrants from Central America yell through a border wall at a U.S. Border Patrol agent after he pulled down a banner, Sunday, in San Diego. Migrants approaching the U.S. border from Mexico were enveloped with tear gas Sunday after a few tried to breach the fence separating the two countries.

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Clash spotlights force at border

by Colleen Long Associated PressNovember 29, 2018

President Donald Trump listens as Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen addresses members of the media before Trump signs an executive order to end family separations at the border, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House, June 20.

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New DHS head to face same border challenges

by Colleen Long Associated Press, and Jill Colvin Associated PressNovember 15, 2018

A sleeping Honduran girl is carried as a group of Central American migrants, representing the thousands participating in a caravan trying to reach the U.S. border, undertake an hours-long march to the office of the United Nations' humans rights body in Mexico City, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Members of the caravan which has stopped in Mexico City demanded buses Thursday to take them to the U.S. border, saying it tis too cold and dangerous to continue walking and hitchhiking.(AP...

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Trump limits asylum, says migrants must “have merit’

by Colleen Long Associated PressNovember 9, 2018

People stand in line to cast their vote at a public school in the Upper West Side neighborhood of New York, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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Long lines, machine breakdowns mar vote on Election Day

by Christina A. Cassidy Associated Press, Colleen Long Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressNovember 7, 2018

President Donald Trump talks about immigration and border security from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Trump pledges asylum crackdown, tent cities; is it legal?

by Jill Colvin Associated Press, and Colleen Long Associated PressNovember 2, 2018

A member of the New York National Guard, center, watches as commuters walk through the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, in New York. A series of pipe bombs sent to prominent Democrats including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has deepened political tensions and fears two weeks before national midterm elections. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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Man detained in Florida in mail-bomb case

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Colleen Long Associated PressOctober 26, 2018