Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has told Mexican leaders that the United States won't enlist its military to enforce immigration laws and that there will be "no mass deportations." Kelly contradicted President Donald Trump who hours earlier suggested the opposite. Trump told a group of CEO's at the White House that the deportation push is a "military operation." Kelly, speaking in Mexico City, says all deportations will comply with human rights requirements and the U.S. legal system, including its multiple appeals for those facing deportation.
DALLAS (AP) — Immigration officials have confirmed that a Salvadoran woman seeking asylum was returned to a Texas detention center after spending almost two weeks in a hospital. Lawyers for the woman say she was being treated for a brain tumor, has waited for 13 days to have surgery and her condition is worsening. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman says the woman's condition has stabilized and she is awaiting a medical appointment.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expressing strong support for the federal government's continued use of private prisons. Sessions has reversed a directive to phase out their use. The previous administration cited rising costs and declining prison populations. Stock prices of major private prison companies rose at the news. The private prison industry has been a major contributor to Republican political campaigns
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt, has urged members of Congress to "have some courage" and face their constituents. Giffords was responding to Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert, who brought up the 2011 Giffords shooting to explain why he's only holding telephone town halls. Gohmert says the raucous crowds peppering lawmakers with questions this week are "from the more violent strains of the leftist ideology."
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — The last of the holdouts have been cleared from a North Dakota protest camp where opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline had been gathering for months. Hundreds of officers and 18 National Guardsmen cleared the camp today, making 46 arrests. Native Americans who oppose the $3.8 billion pipeline established the camp last April on federal land near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. They contend the project will hurt the environment and sacred sites. They've lost a series of court battles and the pipeline is nearing completion.
Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
