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US Supreme Court upholds Donald Trump's anti-Muslim travel ban, rejects discrimination claim: All you need to know

A sharply divided Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld US President Donald Trump's latest version of ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries - but not only those countries - rejecting a challenge that it discriminated against Muslims or exceeded his authority. A dissenting justice said the outcome was a historic mistake.

17 US states including Washington, New York, California sue Donald Trump government over family separations

Seventeen states, including Washington, New York and California, sued President Donald Trump's administration Tuesday in an effort to force officials to reunite migrant families who have been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Hopes rise for US immigration deal on DACA while legal immigrants remain on edge in midterm election year

A leader of US House moderates said Thursday that a tentative deal with conservatives has emerged to help young "Dreamer" immigrants brought illegally to the US as children and later given temporary protections by the Obama government now stay in the U.S. legally. But where does all this leave those who are legally in America and waiting in line?

US Congress races against time to fix contentious US immigration problems - the new tinderbox of American politics

While the US president and his A team on hardline immigration chart their own course, deep fault lines have surfaced within the Republican party on a mind-stretching gamut of issues that have come to define the catchall of immigration policy in the US.

Donald Trump hosts first White House Iftar dinner: American Muslim groups boycott, say thanks, but no thanks

Last year, Trump broke with decades of precedent by forgoing the annual Iftar dinner – a bipartisan tradition that formally began with Bill Clinton in the 1990s but has conceptual roots tracing as far back as under Thomas Jefferson in 1805.

Donald Trump on midterm campaign mode whips up immigration storm; seizes on opponents' glaring social media errors

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday seized on an error by liberal activists who tweeted photos of young-looking immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in steel cages and blamed the current administration for separating immigrant children from their parents.

US Supreme Court poised to uphold Donald Trump's controversial travel ban

In the court's first full-blown consideration of a Trump order, the conservative justices who make up the court's majority seemed unwilling to hem in a president who has invoked national security to justify restrictions on who can or cannot step on U.S. soil.

Neal Katyal, the Indian immigrant lawyer taking on Donald Trump's travel ban in US Supreme Court

Neal Katyal, the Indian immigrant lawyer representing challengers of the Donald Trump-led travel ban which faces its reckoning in the US Supreme Court today, once argued for the White House when he was acting solicitor general under President Barack Obama. Now he’s on the other side.

US Supreme Court hears arguments on Donald Trump's travel ban in day of full blown review

The Supreme Court is saving one of its biggest cases for last. The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday over President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from several mostly Muslim countries.

Kirstjen Nielsen to take charge of Homeland Security; White House aide had also served in George W Bush administration

The US Senate confirmed White House deputy chief of staff Kirstjen Nielsen as Secretary of Homeland Security on Tuesday.