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Mark Morgan, acting head of Customs and Border Protection, addresses the Trump administration new asylum rule. He says it's being rolled out as a small "pilot."

"Although the new federal regulation allows us to apply that all 2,000 miles along the Southwest border, we're not going to do that," Mark Morgan told NPR.

The Trump administration had promised that ICE would begin apprehending thousands of migrants over the weekend. However, large-scale arrests of those with removal orders failed to materialize.

A new emergency shelter opening in Texas means fewer migrant children will be held in squalid Border Patrol holding cells. But there is growing opposition to what critics are calling "child camps."

About 104,000 migrants were taken into custody after crossing the Southwest border — a 28% drop from May. The hot-weather drop "outpaces last year's decline by 11 percent," DHS said.

The Department of Homeland Security announced that about 104,000 migrants were taken into custody after crossing the Southwest border in June, a 28% drop from May.

The inspector general's office visited Customs and Border Protection sites across the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. They found migrants penned in overcrowded Border Patrol facilities.

The government wants to avoid the kind of scandal that occurred in Clint, Texas, where scores of immigrant children were warehoused together.

The Trump administration is pumping $3 billion into shelter network for migrant children after reports of kids held in squalid Border Patrol cells. But critics don't want these kids confined at all.

John Sanders, the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, plans to step down. The agency has come under fire for about 300 migrant children detained in unsanitary conditions.

John Sanders is expected to make his resignation effective July 5, two officials say. The move comes after hundreds of children were removed from a facility without adequate food and sanitation.

Hundreds of children — detained in a remote Border Patrol station in southwest Texas without adequate food, water and sanitation — have been moved after news of the conditions became public.

The Supreme Court threw out a ban on trademarks with "immoral" or "scandalous" content. That clears the path for a clothing line with a four-letter brand to win a trademark, but what about others?

Acting ICE Director Mark Morgan defended his plan to arrest and deport thousands of migrant families in an interview with NPR.

In an interview with NPR, Acting ICE Director Mark Morgan says his agency is only enforcing the law. "So what are our options?" he asked. "They've had due process."

A year has passed since the Trump administration's family separation policy was rescinded. It sparked a national outcry and changed the immigration debate in America.

Malcolm John Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, died Thursday at age 77. He was a giant of New Orleans rhythm & blues in the 1950s and 1960s.

Malcolm John Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, died Thursday at age 77. He was a giant of New Orleans rhythm & blues in the 1950s and '60s.

U.S. border officials strictly limit the number of asylum seekers they allow to legally cross ports of entry every day, creating an enormous backlog of migrants in places like Matamoros.

The facility was shut down for 24 hours after 32 detainees got sick with the flu. A 16-year-old who had gotten sick there later died at another Border Patrol station.