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Judiciary panel subpoenas Homeland Security over pardons

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

In this July 17, 2019, file photo, three migrants who had managed to evade the Mexican National Guard and cross the Rio Grande onto U.S. territory walk along a border wall set back from the geographical border, in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

US moves FEMA, Coast Guard money to fund border programs

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, file photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) ** FILE **

DHS to use disaster money for border security, deportations

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, file photo, white nationalist demonstrators walk into the entrance of Lee Park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

House Democrats: Trump admin. jeopardizing national security by not addressing white extremists

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Scott says he wasn’t told about Russian hacking in 2016

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

Texas congresswoman alleges ‘cover-up’ at border stations

Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2018, file photo, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. The topic of reparations for slavery is headed to Capitol Hill for its first hearing in more than a decade. Jackson Lee, the resolution's new sponsor, pushed for the hearings, scheduled to begin Wednesday, June 19, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sheila Jackson Lee alleges ‘cover-up’ at border stations

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FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2018, file photo, from left, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, laugh before President Donald Trump arrived to announce his support for the first major rewrite of the nation's criminal justice sentencing laws at White House in Washington. Cuccinelli will be joining the Trump administration. A White House official confirms Cuccinelli will be taking a position at the Homeland Security Department, focusing on immigration. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Cuccinelli joining Trump administration in immigration role

By JILL COLVIN and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

In this Sept. 20, 2018, file photo, voting booths stand ready in downtown Minneapolis for the opening of early voting in Minnesota. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski) ** FILE **

2020 campaign staffers being trained to handle cyberthreats

By Colleen Long and Christina A. Cassidy - Associated Press

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan listens, Wednesday, May 1, 2019, during a House Appropriations subcommittee on budget hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Pentagon chief wonders when US-Mexico border mission to end

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 14, 2019, file photo, families who crossed the nearby U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas are placed in a Border Patrol vehicle. U.S. border authorities say they’ve started to increase the biometric data they take from children 13 years of age and younger, including fingerprints, despite privacy concerns and government policy intended to restrict what can be collected from migrant youth. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Border Patrol expands fingerprinting of migrant children

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

President Donald Trump pauses while speakings to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, before boarding Marine One helicopter, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Ribbon cutting a last act for ousted Trump DHS officials

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

In this Jan. 2, 2019, file photo White House senior adviser Stephen Miller listens as President Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Stephen Miller, Jared Kushner: White House power players at odds over immigration policy

By Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller - Associated Press

In this Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, Rep.-elect Xochitl Torres Small, D-N.M., reacts after drawing her number during the member-elect room lottery draw on Capitol Hill in Washington. Torres Small told The Associated Press she doesn't mind not getting as much attention as other freshmen in Congress because she has other goals around border security. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file)

Xochitl Torres Small: Absence of permanent leadership causing ineffective border regulation

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen talks outside her home in Alexandria, Va., on Thursday, April 8, 2019. Nielsen says she continues to support the president’s goal of securing the border in her first public remarks since her surprise resignation. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Nielsen exit comes amid larger shake-up at Homeland Security

By COLLEEN LONG and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, March 18, 2019, file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen speaks at George Washington University's Jack Morton Auditorium in Washington. In a tweet on Sunday, April 7, 2019, President Donald Trump said he's accepted Nielsen's resignation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Shake-up at Homeland Security goes beyond Nielsen’s exit

By COLLEEN LONG and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

President Trump's management shake-up at the Department of Homeland Security is serving as a flash point for those who care deeply about Mr. Trump's agenda of border security.

Some Trump supporters frustrated by immigration policy, issues at border

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen talks outside her home in Alexandria, Va., on Thursday, April 8, 2019. Nielsen says she continues to support the president’s goal of securing the border in her first public remarks since her surprise resignation. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

The Latest: Officials say Miller is behind DHS shake-up

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FILE - In this Nov. 27, 2018, file photo, Elizabeth OuYang, coordinator of New York Counts 2020, speaks during a news conference outside the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse. Several lawsuits across the country have been filed challenging the citizenship question on the 2020 census. As the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether the Trump administration can ask people if they are citizens on the upcoming Census, the Census Bureau is quietly seeking comprehensive information about the legal status of millions of immigrants. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Ahead of court ruling, Census Bureau seeks citizenship data

By GARANCE BURKE and FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., left, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., right, laugh as they wait for other freshman congressmen to deliver a letter calling to an end to the government shutdown to deliver to the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. Also pictured is Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, right. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib, progressive freshman, to vote against budget deal

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times