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Massive police response breaks up protest blockade at ICE headquarters in...

CENTENNIAL — Dozens of law enforcement officers, many dressed in full tactical gear, have arrived to break up a protest at ICE's Colorado headquarters...

ICE says it’s “in the planning mode” to reunite 50 parents...

A spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that the agency is “in the planning mode” for reunification of the 50 parents separated...

Held in ICE facility in Colorado, immigrant mothers share stories of...

One mother separated from her son said the two had to spend his sixth birthday apart, and that when he asked by phone why...

Littwin: The lowest Trumpian low – traumatizing children in order to...

Let’s be clear on this. The cruelty taking place on our borders is intentional and not an unfortunate byproduct of an ill-conceived law. Yes, the...

Wiretap: Pope Francis’s prayer for migrants dings Donald Trump

Border prayers On the last day of Pope Francis's trip to Mexico, he went to the border, climbed atop a platform overlooking the Rio Grande...

Littwin: Ted Cruz’s humanitarian crisis

  TED Cruz nearly had me. I went to see the Texas senator at the Western Conservative Summit because I have a soft spot for...

Wiretap: Refugee children at the (political) border

  James Oliphant asks in the National Journal why Barack Obama won't call the kids at the border "refugees." It's the same reason he...

Littwin: A humanitarian crisis that brings out the worst-in us

  There is a rush to send the children back. That's the message we get from Washington. There are 50,000 unaccompanied minors at the border now....

Tancredo slams Perry as an ‘arrogant, open border, pro-amnesty politician’

Former Colorado Congressman and anti-illegal immigration crusader Tom Tancredo has no patience with Republican presidential frontrunner Rick Perry, the Texas governor with the Hollywood hair who fired up the right when he announced his candidacy but who has stumbled under the national spotlight ever since. In the wake of last week's GOP candidate debate, Tancredo decried Perry as an arrogant "name-calling, open border, pro-amnesty politician."