Nancy Pelosi told an audience in New York that she told President Trump that "a violation of status is not a reason for deportation."

A Killeen, Texas, woman shot an intrusion suspect Sunday, then pinned him to the floor.

"If things get as far as an actual deployment on the ground of these sorts of systems, then the situation won't just get more complicated, it will escalate right to the limit."

The unexpected eruption of Raikoke volcano in Russia sent a plume of ash and gases up to 12 miles (17 km) a.s.l. in the air on June 22, 2019.

Iran's President Rouhani sneered at U.S. President Trump and his White House team, saying they are "afflicted by mental retardation."

Sen. Tom Cotton questioned who federal officials are allowed to deport if not illegal aliens who have already been ordered deported.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wondered aloud what purpose "interior enforcement" serves with respect to U.S. immigration laws.

NZ gun owners say the government is doing a buyback of "military style" semiautomatic rifles but refusing to pay full price for the firearms.

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker refused to rule out meeting with Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who is known for making anti-Semitic remarks. 

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to conduct a mass roundup of migrant families that have received deportation orders, an operation that is likely to begin with predawn raids in major U.S. cities on Sunday, according to three U.S. officials with knowledge of the plans. The "family op," as it is referred to at ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, is slated to target up to 2,000 families facing deportation orders in as many as 10 U.S. cities, including Houston, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles and other major immigration destinations, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the law enforcement operation. Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan has been urging ICE to conduct a narrower, more-targeted operation that would seek to detain a group of about 150 families that were provided with attorneys but dropped out of the legal process and absconded. McAleenan has warned that an indiscriminate operation to arrest migrants in their homes and at work sites risks separating children from their parents in cases where the children are at day care, summer camp or friend's houses and not present for the raids. He also has maintained that ICE should not devote major resources to carrying out a mass interior sweep while telling lawmakers it needs emergency funding to address the crisis at the U.S. border. Trump has been determined to go forward with the family operation after tweeting Monday that the immigration raids were coming "next week" as a first step toward his pledge for "millions" of deportations. The White House has been in direct communication with acting ICE director Mark Morgan and other ICE officials, circumventing McAleenan, three officials said. DHS and White House officials did not immediately respond to requests for...