U.S. secretary of homeland security
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A new Migration Policy Institute analysis finds deportations are up but still short of Trump's promised 1 million a year. Only about 20% of the people removed had been convicted of a crime, even as the administration says it is going after the "worst of the worst."
Early voting is already underway in Virginia, and a Northern Virginia county is asking a federal judge to block armed federal agents at its voting sites. It cites an 1865 law and statements by the Homeland Security secretary and the FBI director.
The Justice Department wants the justices to lift a judge's order that froze wall construction across a remote stretch of West Texas. The fight tests how much power a 1996 law gives the Homeland Security secretary to skip environmental rules.
