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Watchdog: Many More Migrant Families May Have Been Separated

WASHINGTON — Government investigators say many more migrant children may have been separated from their parents than the Trump administration has acknowledged. A report from the Health and Human Services inspector general's office finds that family separations were taking place before the spring of last year, when the administration announced...

Judge: Separated Families Must Be Reunited Within 30 Days

MCALLEN, Texas — A judge in California on Tuesday ordered U.S. border authorities to reunite separated families within 30 days, setting a hard deadline in a process that has so far yielded uncertainty about when children might again see their parents. If children are younger than 5, they must be...

GOP Leaders Postpone 'Compromise' Immigration Vote

WASHINGTON — The Latest on the immigration controversy (all times EDT): 2:15 p.m. — Battle Between Conservatives and Moderate Republicans House Republican leaders abruptly postponed voting on a compromise immigration measure amid ongoing infighting between conservative and moderates. Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's office confirmed the decision. Voting that had been...

Trump Says He'll Be 'Signing Something' on Detained Children

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has drafted an executive action for President Donald Trump that would direct her department to keep families together after they are detained crossing the border illegally. She was at the White House where Trump told reporters he would be "signing something" shortly. The...

Misleading Tweets by Liberal Activists Fuel Trump

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday seized on an error by liberal activists who tweeted photos of young-looking immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in steel cages and blamed the current administration for separating immigrant children from their parents. The photos were taken by The Associated Press in 2014, when...

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