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FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2016, file photo, Naila Amin, 26, holds a book from one of the classes she was taking at Nassau Community College in Garden City, N.Y. According to data provided to The Associated Press, the U.S. approved thousands of requests by men to bring child and teenage brides from another country. “My passport ruined my life,” said Naila Amin, a dual citizen from Pakistan who grew up in New York City. She was forcibly married at 13 in Pakistan and applied for papers for her 26-year-old husband to come to the country. “People die to come to America. I was a passport to him. They all wanted him here, and that was the way to do it.” (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

Government Data: U.S. OK’d Thousands of Child Bride Requests

by Colleen Long Associated PressJanuary 11, 2019

ALTERNATIVE CROP OF XRE301.- A Central American migrant is stopped by U.S. agents who order him to go back to the Mexican side of the border, after a group of migrants got past Mexican police at the Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, at the border with San Ysidro, California. The mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis in his border city and says that he has asked the United Nations for aid to deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants who have arrived in the city. (AP Photo/Pedro Acosta)APTOPIX

Clash with Migrants Spotlights Use of Force at the U.S.-Mexico Border

by Colleen Long Associated PressNovember 28, 2018

FILE - In this May 23, 2018 file photo, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen speaks during a roundtable on immigration policy with President Donald Trump at Morrelly Homeland Security Center, in Bethpage, N.Y. President Donald Trump has soured on Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and she is expected to leave her job as soon as this week. That’s according to two people who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump Eyes Additional Staff Shake-up

by Colleen Long Associated Press, and Zeke Miller And Catherine Lucey Associated PressNovember 14, 2018

President Donald Trump talks about immigration and border security from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump Pledges Asylum Crackdown

by Jill Colvin Associated Press, and Colleen Long Associated PressNovember 1, 2018

This Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018 photo shows the United States Postal Service Delaware Processing and Distribution center in New Castle, Del., Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. A law enforcement official says a package addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden appears similar to packages containing bombs sent to prominent Democrats and has been intercepted at a Delaware mail facility. The FBI confirms there is law enforcement activity at the U.S. mail facility. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Man Detained in Florida in Mail-Bomb Case

by Michael Balsamo Associated Press, Eric Tucker Associated Press, and Colleen Long Associated PressOctober 26, 2018

The first test of the national wireless emergency system by the Federal Emergency Management Agency is shown on a cellular phone in Detroit, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. About 225 million electrtonic devices across the United States received alerts from FEMA Wednesday afternoon. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Emergency Alert Test Sounds Off on Mobile Phones Nationwide

by Colleen Long Associated PressOctober 3, 2018

FILE - In this April 27, 2018 file photo, a poster announcing available jobs hangs in the window of the store La Guadalupana in Florence, Ky. One of President Donald Trump’s top priorities _ low unemployment _ is complicating another: curbing immigration. The number of job openings is exceeding the number of Americans seeking jobs, leaving some employers looking beyond the border to fill openings. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Labor Needs Complicate Immigration

by Colleen Long Associated PressAugust 3, 2018

Families march past the U.S. Capitol as they protest the separation of immigrant families, Thursday, July 26, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Trump administration faces a court-imposed deadline Thursday to reunite thousands of children and parents who were forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, an enormous logistical task brought on by its "zero tolerance" policy on illegal entry. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Administration: 1,820 Children Reunited

by Elliot Spagat Associated Press, and Colleen Long Associated PressJuly 26, 2018

FILE - In this July 13, 2018, file photo, Allison, 6, and her mother Cindy Madrid share a moment during a news conference in Houston, where the mother and daughter spoke about the month and one day they were separated under the President Donald Trump administration immigration policy. The Trump administration is due back in court Monday, July 16, 2018, to discuss a plan reunify more than 2,500 children who were separated at the border from their parents. (Marie D. De Jes's/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

Federal Judge Orders Temporary Halt to Deportation of Reunified Families

by Elliot Spagat Associated Press, and Colleen Long Associated PressJuly 17, 2018

In this image taken from video, Javier Garrido Martinez, left and Alan Garcia, right, sit with their 4-year-sons at a news conference in New York, Wednesday, July 11, 2018. They men were reunited with their children after almost two months of separation, Authorities took their boys them when they stopped at the U.S. southern border. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)

Nearly Half Of Children Not Reunited

by Colleen Long Associated PressJuly 13, 2018