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FILE - In this April 14, 2017, file photo, protesters rally outside a courthouse where a federal judge heard arguments in the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order to withhold funding from communities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities in San Francisco. U.S. District Judge William Orrick on Monday, March 5, 2018, rejected the state's request for a preliminary injunction to turn over the money. More local governments in California are resisting the state's efforts to resist the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, and political experts see politics at play as Republicans try to fire up voters in a state where the GOP has grown weak. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

Another California county backs Trump’s ‘sanctuary’ lawsuit

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz, left, makes his way to the U.S. District Court building in downtown Tucson, Ariz., where opening arguments were scheduled to begin in his murder trial. Closing arguments are expected in Tucson, Ariz., this week in the trial of Swartz, charged in the 2012 fatal shooting 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez across the Mexican border. (Ron Medvescek/Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)

Border shooting case jury adjourns for day without verdict

By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press

Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz, left, makes his way to the U.S. District Court building in downtown Tucson, Ariz., where opening arguments were scheduled to begin in his murder trial. Closing arguments are expected in Tucson, Ariz., this week in the trial of Swartz, charged in the 2012 fatal shooting 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez across the Mexican border. (Ron Medvescek/Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)

The Latest: Jury done for day in case against border agent

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FILE - In this March 13, 2017, file photo, opponents of SB54, which would create a statewide sanctuary for immigrants in the country illegally, prepare to testify against the measure in the Senate Appropriations Committee in Sacramento, Calif. California lawmakers gave initial approval Monday, April 3, to a measure that prevents law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration officials, a measure that proponents said rebukes President Donald Trump for his immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Don Thompson, File)

San Diego County Board of Supervisors backs Trump administration in California sanctuary lawsuit

By Julie Watson - Associated Press

The Latest: Jury released for day in border agent’s case

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Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican. (Associated Press/File)

Steve King keeps Donald Trump from linking NAFTA, illegal immigration

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Attorney Mark Agnifilo representing Keith Raniere, speaks following Raniere's arraignment in federal court on Friday, April 13, 2018, in New York . (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

The Latest: Lawyer says leader of secretive group innocent

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Hector Barajas speaks to the media at a news conference outside the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services office in downtown San Diego, Friday, April 13, 2018. Barajas, a decorated former U.S. Army paratrooper whose work on behalf of deported veterans drew widespread attention to his cause, became a U.S. citizen Friday, giving immigration advocates a rare reason to celebrate. (Alejandro Tamayo/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

Deported veteran becomes US citizen after California pardon

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Actress Catherine Oxenberg, left, arrives at federal court with Stanley Zareff and Toni Natalie, who is Keith Raniere's ex-girlfriend, for the arraignment of NXIVM leader Raniere on Friday, April 13, 2018, in New York. Oxenberg's daughter India has been named as a co-conspirator in a criminal complaint against Raniere. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

Leader of secretive group ordered by judge to stay in jail

By VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press

6 killed in Mexico border city apparently bystanders

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Illustration on the southern border wall by Paul Tong/Tribune Content Agency

Donald Trump’s wall is getting push-back from Congress

By Donald Lambro

Hector Barajas, a U.S. Army veteran deported twice to Mexico, celebrated last month with Norma Chavez-Peterson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial counties, after learning that he would be granted American citizenship. (Associated Press)

Jerry Brown, Andrew Cuomo use pardons to circumvent immigration laws, prevent deportations

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Dec. 6, 2005 file photo, Mexican author Sergio Pitol, poses after attending a talk with students and a reading of Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote at the National Univesity in Mexico. Pitol, the celebrated Mexican author, essayist and translator and winner of the 2005 Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious award for literature in the Spanish-speaking world, has died on April 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Carlos Ferrer, File)

Renowned Mexican writer Sergio Pitol dies at 85

By BERENICE BAUTISTA and PETER ORSI - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 22, 2016 file photo, Border Patrol agent Eduardo Olmos walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico, background, and San Diego in San Diego. California Gov. Jerry Brown agreed Wednesday, April 11, 2018, to deploy 400 National Guard troops at President Donald Trump's request, but not all will head to the U.S.-Mexico border as Trump wants and none will enforce federal immigration enforcement. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

The Latest: Texas governor says half of 1,400 troops on job

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Federal agents on April 12, 2018, announced a $20 million reward for information that leads to the capture of a Mexican drug lord accused of directing the kidnap and murder of a DEA agent in 1985. (Laura Kelly/The Washington Times)

Rafael Caro-Quintero, Mexican cartel leader, added to FBI Ten Most Wanted list

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

US prosecutors detail evidence against drug lord El Chapo

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FILE - In this Friday, April 21, 2017, file photo, United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions stands near a secondary border fence during a news conference at the U.S.-Mexican border next to the Brown Field Border Patrol Station in San Diego. Sessions is scheduled to speak about immigration to a meeting of sheriffs, Wednesday, April 11, 2018, in Las Cruces, N.M. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, File)

The Latest: Sessions says goal is lawful immigration system

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The International border, composed of barbed wire and &quot;X&quot; barriers, cuts through Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, right, and Nogales, Ariz., as seen Tuesday, April 10, 2018 near Nogales, Ariz. The Republican governors of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico on Monday committed 1,600 Guard members to the border, giving President Donald Trump many of the troops he requested to fight what he's called a crisis of migrant crossings and crime. (AP Photo/Matt York)

The Latest: US Homeland Security chief postpones border trip

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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey speaks to Arizona National Guard soldiers prior to deployment to the Mexico border at the Papago Park Military Reservation Monday, April 9, 2018, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Some National Guard members start arriving at U.S.-Mexico border

By Nomaan Merchant and Bob Christie - Associated Press

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Man who sent tractor-trailers full of drugs to U.S. from Mexico sentenced to 135 months

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times