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What Is a National Emergency and When Can a President Legally Declare One?
By Megan Trimble
Government shutdown: how bad is it and can it be resolved?
By Lauren Gambino
Analysis | Your fact-checking cheat sheet for Trump's immigration address
By Meg Kelly, Salvador Rizzo & Glenn Kessler
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About a dozen non-US citizens on terror watchlist encountered at southern border in fiscal year 2018
By Pamela Brown
Schumer and Pelosi, Responding to Trump's Speech, Call to Reopen Government (Published 2019)
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Most illegal immigration doesn't come through the Mexican border where Trump wants to build his wall
By Carmin Chappell
Democratic leaders dig in on wall fight: 'Trump must stop holding the American people hostage'
By Alex Rogers
Trump addresses the nation, Democrats respond: Follow live
By Veronica Rocha, Meg Wagner & Amanda Wills
Trump Says Predecessors Confessed Support for the Border Wall. Not True, They Say. (Published 2019)
By Peter Baker