The Republican president,who spoke with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday,told reporters he believed Pelosi"wants to get something done."
The mother of a man who drowned alongside his 23-month-old daughter on US border says she finds a heartbreaking photograph of their bodies hard to look at.
The father put his 23-month-old daughter safely on the US side of the Rio Grande river and went back for his wife. The girl tried to follow him.
Commissioner John Sanders'departure deepens the sense of crisis and adds to the rapid turnover inside the agencies enforcing Trump's hardline immigration.
Just 30 children remained at the facility near El Paso Monday,said Representative Veronica Escobar after her office was briefed on the situation.
It's a scene that is being repeated at other immigration facilities overwhelmed with too many migrant children and nowhere to put them.
Lawyers said girls,ages 10 to 15,said they had been taking turns keeping watch over a sick 2-year-old boy because there was no one else to look after him.
Citing a national security"emergency",Trump's tariff will punish Mexico and Central and South American asylum seekers.
A US district judge said that those challenging Trump's actions had a good chance of prevailing on their claims that the administration is acting illegally.
Though he didn't explicitly endorse the suggestion,the President's joking response raised concerns that he was tacitly encouraging extrajudicial killings and brutality against asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants.
The United Constitutional Patriots came to public attention this month after the emergence of videos that showed men stopping and detaining people crossing the border.