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FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2021 file photo, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. The Biden administration on Monday renewed efforts to shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States as young children from deportation, the latest maneuver in a long-running drama over the policy's legality. Mayorkas called again on Monday for Congress to act swiftly to provide “the legal status they need...

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Biden eyes DACA workaround to shield ‘Dreamers’

by Elliot Spagat Associated PressSeptember 27, 2021

Migrants are released from United States Border Patrol custody at a humanitarian center, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Officials: Many migrants released in US

by Elliot Spagat Associated Press, Maria Verza Associated Press, and Juan A. Lozano Associated PressSeptember 22, 2021

A little girl holds her stuffed animal high above the water as migrants, many from Haiti, wade across the Rio Grande river from Del Rio, Texas, to return to Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, Monday, to avoid deportation.

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US defends repatriation of Haitians

by Juan A. Lozano Associated Press, Eric Gay Associated Press, Elliot Spagat Associated Press, and Evens Sanon Associated PressSeptember 20, 2021

Migrants find an alternative place to cross from Mexico to the United States after access to a dam was closed, Sunday, in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico.

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US closes part of Texas border, begins flying Haitians home

by Juan A. Lozano Associated Press, Eric Gay Associated Press, Elliot Spagat Associated Press, and Evens Sanon Associated PressSeptember 19, 2021

Migrants mainly from Honduras and Nicaragua sit in line after turning themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border Monday, May 17, in La Joya, Texas.

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Biden taps groups to help pick asylum-seekers

by Elliot Spagat Associated Press, and Julie Watson Associated PressJune 4, 2021

In this March 24, 2021 photo, a migrant man, center, holds a child as he looks at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent at an intake area after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, early Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Roma, Texas. The Biden administration said Monday that four families that were separated at the Mexico border during Donald Trump's presidency will be reunited in the United States this week in what Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calls “just the beginning”...

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Some migrant families separated at border being reunited

by Elliot Spagat Associated PressMay 3, 2021

FILE - In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. U.S. authorities say they picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March. It's the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major test for President Joe Biden as he...

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19,000 solo children picked up at border in March

by Elliot Spagat Associated Press, and Alexandra Jaffe Associated PressApril 8, 2021

A migrant and her daughter have their biometric data entered at the intake area of the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool)

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Texas camp holds 4,000 migrants, many children

by Elliot Spagat Associated Press, and Nomaan Merchant Associated PressMarch 30, 2021

Migrants recently expelled from the U.S. after trying to seek asylum sit next to the international bridge in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, Saturday, March 27, 2021. Dozens of migrants who earlier tried to cross into the U.S. in order to seek asylum have been expelled from the U.S. under pandemic-related presidential authority. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

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Expelled from US at night, migrants weight next steps

by Elliot Spagat Associated PressMarch 28, 2021

FILE - In this Sunday, March 14, 2021, file photo, migrant children and teenagers are processed after entering the site of a temporary holding facility south of Midland, Texas. Teenagers began arriving Sunday at a converted camp for oilfield workers where volunteers from the American Red Cross will care for them. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP, File)

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Child border crossings surging

by Ben Fox Associated Press, and Elliot Spagat Associated PressMarch 16, 2021