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A small group of migrants waiting to seek asylum sleeps at the entrance to the Puerta Mexico international bridge in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, Friday. Hundreds of migrants from Central America, South America, the Caribbean and Africa have been waiting, most in rented rooms or a distant shelter, for their number to be called at the bridge in downtown Matamoros, to have the opportunity to request asylum in the U.S.

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Group says conditions dire for asylum seekers stuck in Mexico

by Colleen Long Associated PressJuly 1, 2019

President Trump speaks during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, in Washington, Thursday.

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Trump may struggle to meet his deportation threat

by Colleen Long Associated Press, Jill Colvin Associated Press, and Elliot Spagat Associated PressJune 18, 2019

A man sleeps next to the U.S. border wall topped with razor wire in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, June 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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Mexico denies Trump’s claim of secret concessions in deal

by Jill Colvin Associated Press, Colleen Long Associated Press, and Maria Verza Associated PressJune 10, 2019

Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2019, prepares to leave after the House Homeland Security Committee on budget. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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House hearing grows heated over migrant children’s deaths

by Colleen Long Associated PressMay 22, 2019

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen talks outside her home in Alexandria, Va., on Monday.

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Homeland Security shake-up goes beyond Nielsen’s exit

by Colleen Long Associated Press, and Jill Colvin Associated PressApril 8, 2019

President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate behind mangrove trees in Palm Beach, Fla.

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Mar-a-Lago arrest shows security risks at Trump estate

by Jonathan Lemire Associated Press, Colleen Long Associated Press, and Terry Spencer Associated PressApril 3, 2019

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk along the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Sunday, March 31, 2019, as they return from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Trump considers adding ‘immigration czar’

by Jill Colvin Associated Press, and Colleen Long Associated PressApril 1, 2019

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, listens as the panel holds a hearing about prevention and response to sexual assault in the military, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., recounted her own experience while serving as a colonel in the Air Force. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Sen. McSally, former Air Force pilot, says officer raped her

by Colleen Long Associated PressMarch 6, 2019

With surveillance footage in the background, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Kevin McAleenan speaks during a news conference in Washington, Tuesday, March 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Record-breaking family migration overwhelming border agency

by Colleen Long Associated PressMarch 5, 2019

Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the House Oversight and Reform Committee ranking Republican, left, and Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., right, during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. The committee voted to subpoena Trump administration officials over family separations at the southern border, the first issued in the new Congress as Democrats have promised to hold the administration aggressively to count. The decision by the Oversight Committee will compel the heads of Justice, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services to deliver documents. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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House targets family separations in first Trump subpoena

by Colleen Long Associated PressFebruary 26, 2019