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A protester holds a sign outside a closed gate at the Port of Entry facility, Thursday, June 21, 2018, in Fabens, Texas, where tent shelters are being used to house separated family members. President Donald Trump's order ending the policy of separating immigrant families at the border leaves a host of unanswered questions, including what happens to the more than 2,300 children already taken from their parents and where the government will house all the newly detained migrants in a system already bursting at the seams. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Washington, other states plan to sue over family separations

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

Sen. Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

Jeff Flake holds up Trump’s judicial nominees over tariffs, Cuba: Report

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Josseline Garcia, 20, and Jennifer Garcia, 24, sisters from Guatemala seeking asylum, cross a bridge to a port of entry in to the United States from Matamoros, Mexico, Wednesday, June 20, 2018, in Brownsville, Texas. Nearly 2,000 children have been separated from their families at the U.S. border over a six-week period during a crackdown on illegal entries, according to Department of Homeland Security figures obtained Friday by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

APNewsBreak: About 500 kids reunited with families since May

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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., joined by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., left, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, talks following a closed-door conference with fellow Republicans at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2018. A sweeping House GOP immigration overhaul teetered on the brink of collapse Thursday as lawmakers struggled to move past an issue that has become politically fraught amid the dire images of families being separated at the border. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WHAT’S HAPPENING: A struggle for next steps on immigration

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

President Donald Trump, center, listens to Vice President Mike Pence, right, address members of the media before signing an executive order to end family separations at the border, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2018. Looking on is Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump’s immigration order sparks confusion, deep concern

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

This July 3, 2014 file photo shows Microsoft Corp. signage outside the Microsoft Visitor Center in Redmond, Wash. (AP Photo Ted S. Warren, File)

Microsoft employees protest ICE contracts amid migrant crisis

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary James Mattis speaks about the National Defense Review, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, in Washington. China's expanding military and an increasingly aggressive Russia are among the U.S. military's top national security priorities, the Pentagon said Friday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

James Mattis hails Germany’s defense efforts

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Swanson calls on Trump administration to reunite families

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Two young girls watch a World Cup soccer match on a television from their holding area where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz. The government hasn't worked out a streamlined way to reunite kids and parents who were separated at the border under a new zero-tolerance policy that requires all immigrants who cross the border illegally to be prosecuted. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool, File)

AP Explains: Where do kids split from parents go?

By ASTRID GALVAN - Associated Press

In this April 14, 2017, photo, protesters hold up signs outside a courthouse where a federal judge was to hear 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. After repeatedly suing the Trump administration over U.S. immigration policies, California will find itself in an unusual position Wednesday, June 20, 2018: defending protections for people in the country illegally against a court challenge by the federal government. U.S. Judge John Mendez in Sacramento will hear arguments from attorneys for the state and the U.S. Justice Department about a federal request to block three California laws. (AP Photo/Haven Daley) **FILE**

The Latest: Judge questions US lawyer in California lawsuit

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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the National Sheriffs' Association convention in New Orleans, Monday, June 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Methodists, prosecutors scold Sessions over border policy

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order on health care in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Striving to fulfill a campaign promise, the Trump administration Thursday proposed regulations to facilitate interstate sale of health insurance policies that cost less but may not cover as much. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

NY, Mass. AGs sue over Trump’s Obamacare end-run for small business

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left, and White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short, right, arrive for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 19, 2018, as Trump rallies Republicans around a GOP immigration bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Latest: Texas governor seeks bipartisan border solutions

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In this April 14, 2017, photo, protesters hold up signs outside a courthouse where a federal judge was to hear 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. After repeatedly suing the Trump administration over U.S. immigration policies, California will find itself in an unusual position Wednesday, June 20, 2018: defending protections for people in the country illegally against a court challenge by the federal government. U.S. Judge John Mendez in Sacramento will hear arguments from attorneys for the state and the U.S. Justice Department about a federal request to block three California laws. (AP Photo/Haven Daley) **FILE**

Judge disputes California aimed to hinder border enforcement

By SUDHIN THANAWALA and DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

A boy stares out of a heavily tinted bus window leaving a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, Tuesday, June 19, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. More than 2,300 minors have been separated from their families crossing the border to the U.S. under a zero-tolerance policy where everyone caught crossing illegally is prosecuted. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

No clear plan yet on how to reunite parents with children

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, rest in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP)

The Latest: Attorneys general demand family separation stop

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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, center and congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, right, were denied entry by security into the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children on Tuesday, June 19, 2018, in Homestead, Fla. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Senator denied entry to see Florida child migrant facility

By JOSHUA REPLOGLE and BEN FOX - Associated Press

A coalition of more than 40 progressive groups have organized a rally outside the White House and 100 marches around the country later this month to protest Trump administration immigration policies. (Moveon.org)

Inside the Beltway: MoveOn plans massive mobilization against Trump immigration policy

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner speaks during a news conference opposing a proposal to place immigrant children separated from their parents at the border in a facility just east of downtown, Tuesday, June 19, 2018, in Houston. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Youngest migrants held in ‘tender age’ shelters: APNewsBreak

By Garance Burke and Martha Mendoza - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 11, 2018 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. Some business leaders including Zuckerberg are condemning the Trump administration's decision to separate children from parents who are accused of crossing the border illegally, but it's unclear what impact - if any - they will have. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Google, Facebook, others speak out against child separation

By DEE-ANN DURBIN - Associated Press