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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, March 20, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)2026-03-21T19:13:52Z WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump said Saturday he will order federal immigration officers to take a role in airport security starting Monday unless Democrats agree on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security.In a pair of social media posts, Trump first threatened and then said he had made plans to put officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in airports if the congressional standoff continues. He made the announcement as a partial shutdown contributes to long lines to pass through screening at some of the nations largest airports.The Republican president suggested ICE agents would bring the administrations immigration crackdown into the nations airports, promising to arrest all Illegal Immigrants.I look forward to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told them to, GET READY. NO MORE WAITING, NO MORE GAMES! Trump wrote while spending the weekend in Florida. The move appears to be a pointed effort to expand the type of immigration enforcement that has become a sticking point in Congress. Democrats pledged to oppose funding for DHS unless changes were made in the wake of a crackdown in Minnesota that led to the fatal shootings of two protesters. Democrats are asking for better identification for federal law enforcement officers, a new code of conduct for those agencies and more use of judicial warrants, among other measures. The Minnesota operation was tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents. On Saturday, Trump said ICE officers sent to airports would focus on arresting immigrants from Somalia who are in the United States illegally. Repeating his criticism on Somalis, he said they totally destroyed Minnesota. If the Democrats do not allow for Just and Proper Security at our Airports, and elsewhere throughout our Country, ICE will do the job far better than ever done before, Trump said. Trumps posts did not offer additional detail on how ICE would take a role in airport security and what it meant for the Transportation Security Administration, which screens passengers and luggage for hazardous items.The vast majority of TSA employees are considered essential and continue to work during the funding lapse, but they are doing so without pay. Call-out rates have started to increase at some airports, and DHS said at least 376 have quit since the partial shutdown began Feb. 14.On Saturday, in a rare weekend session, the Senate rejected a motion by Democrats to take up legislation to reopen TSA and pay workers who are now going without paychecks. Republicans argue that they need to fund all parts of the DHS, not just certain ones. A bill to fund the Cabinet department failed to advance in the Senate on Friday.There were signs of progress, though, with the restarting in recent days of stalled talks between Democrats and the White House. On Saturday, Republican and Democratic senators were set to meet for a third consecutive day with White House officials behind closed doors as Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York spoke of productive conversations. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., urged the bipartisan group to act quickly. He has said repeatedly that Democrats and the White House need to find compromise as lines at airports have grown.If that group thats meeting cant come up with a solution really quickly, things are going to get worse and worse, Thune said Saturday.___Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington contributed to this report. COLLIN BINKLEY Binkley covers the U.S. Education Department and federal education policy for The Associated Press, along with a wide range of issues from K-12 through higher education. twitter mailto

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This image released by the U.S. Navy shows an aerial view of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Island group. (U.S. Navy via AP, File)2026-03-21T13:23:13Z LONDON (AP) Iran has launched missiles at Diego Garcia, an Indian Ocean island that is home to a strategic U.K.-U.S. military base.Britain condemned Irans reckless attacks after the unsuccessful attempt to hit the base. Its unclear how close the missiles came to the island, which is about 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) from Iran.Here is what to know about the remote but strategic base.Hub for U.S. operationsThe U.S. has described the Diego Garcia base as an all but indispensable platform for security operations in the Middle East, South Asia and East Africa.Home to about 2,500 mostly American personnel, it has supported U.S. military operations from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2008, the U.S. acknowledged that it also had been used for clandestine rendition flights of terror suspects.The U.S. deployed several nuclear-capable B-2 Spirit bombers to Diego Garcia last year amid an intense airstrike campaign targeting Yemens Houthi rebels. Britain initially refused to let the base be used for U.S-Israeli attacks on Iran, but after Iran lashed out at its neighbors, the U.K. said that American bombers could use Diego Garcia and another British base to attack Irans missile sites. On Friday, the U.K. government said that includes sites being used to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The United Kingdom says that British bases can only be used for specific and limited defensive operations. But Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on X that U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is putting British lives in danger by allowing UK bases to be used for aggression against Iran.Iran previously has put a self-imposed limit on its ballistic missile program, limiting their range to 1,240 miles (2,000 kilometers). Diego Garcia is well outside that range. However, U.S. officials long have alleged Irans space program could allow it to build intercontinental ballistic missiles. Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow at defense think tank the Royal United Services Institute, said that the attempt to his Diego Garcia may have involved improvised use of Irans Simorgh space launch rocket, which could offer greater range as a ballistic missile, though at the cost of reduced accuracy.A contested island chainDiego Garcia is part of the Chagos Archipelago, a chain of more than 60 islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean off the tip of India. The islands have been under British control since 1814, when they were ceded by France.In the 1960s and 1970s, Britain evicted as many as 2,000 people from Diego Garcia, so the U.S. military could build the base there.In recent years, criticism has mounted over Britains control of the archipelago and the way it forcibly displaced the local population. The United Nations and the International Court of Justice have urged the United Kingdom to end its colonial administration of the islands and transfer sovereignty to Mauritius. Trump criticismAfter long negotiations, the U.K. government struck a deal last year with Mauritius to hand over sovereignty of the islands. Britain would then lease back the Diego Garcia base for at least 99 years.The U.K. government says that will safeguard the future of the base, which is vulnerable to legal challenges. But the agreement has been criticized by many British opposition politicians, who say giving up the islands puts them at risk of interference by China and Russia.Some of the displaced Chagos islanders and their descendants also have challenged the deal, saying they werent consulted and it leaves them unclear on whether they will ever be allowed to return to their homeland.The U.S. administration initially welcomed the deal, but U.S. President Donald Trump changed his mind in January, calling it an act of GREAT STUPIDITY on his social media platform Truth Social.Starmers initial refusal to let the U.S. attack Iran from Diego Garcia further angered Trump, who said earlier this month that the U.K. has been very, very uncooperative with that stupid island that they have.Passage of the U.K.-Mauritius deal through Parliament has been put on hold until U.S. support can be regained.___Jon Gambrell contributed to this report from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. JILL LAWLESS Lawless is based in London, covering British politics, diplomacy and culture and top stories from the UK and beyond. She has reported for the AP from two dozen countries on four continents. twitter mailto

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Detainees held at the South Texas Family Residential Center wave signs during a demonstration in Dilley, Texas, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Brenda Bazan, File)2026-03-21T21:50:40Z Nearly 600 immigrant children were held in a Texas family detention center in recent months without enough food, medical care or mental health services, as their time inside stretched beyond court-mandated limits, according to court documents filed Friday.Children and families held in the Dilley detention facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father were sent earlier this year also faced virus outbreaks and lasting lockdowns in December and January, although the total number of children held at Dilley has fallen in recent weeks, according to the attorneys reports and site visits.The case of Ramos, a preschooler who was wearing a blue bunny hat when he was picked up in Minnesota by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, stirred protest over the Trump administrations immigration crackdown, including among detainees who gathered and held up signs in the yard inside Dilleys chain-link fences. Last week about 85 children remained detained at Dilley, but concerning conditions continued, said Mishan Wroe, directing attorney at the National Center for Youth Law, who visited in mid-March. In early February, a legal advocate for the children observed about 280 children. The filings cited numerous poignant cases, including that of a 13-year-old girl held at Dilley who tried to take her own life after staff withheld prescribed antidepressants and denied her request to join her mother, as reported by The Associated Press. The government reported there had been no placements on suicide watch, according to the filing. The AP obtained Dilley discharge documents that described a suicide attempt by cutting of wrist and self-harm. The filings were submitted in a lawsuit launched in 1985 that led to the creation in 1997 of court-ordered supervision of standards and eventually established a 20-day limit in custody. The Trump administration seeks to end the Flores settlement. For years, the Flores consent decree has been a tool of the left that is antithetical to the law and wastes valuable U.S. taxpayer funded resources, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. Being in detention is a choice.Attorneys for detainees highlighted the governments data showing longer custody times for immigrant children, and also cited worms in food, and poor access to medical care or sufficient legal counsel as reported by families and monitors at federal facilities.Dilley remains a hellhole, said Leecia Welch, the chief legal director at Childrens Rights, who visits Dilley regularly to ensure compliance. Although the number of children has decreased, the suffering remains the same. Dilley is retrofitted for families, who receive basic necessities including adequate food and water while in detention, and the Trump administration is working to quickly deport detainees, the DHS spokesperson added. A report from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed that about 595 immigrant children were held in custody for more than the 20-day limit in December and January, with some stretching into months, per the filing. Approximately 265 of these children were detained for more than 50 days and a shocking 55 children were detained more than 100 days, the filing stated.That is up from a previous government disclosure late last year that showed from August to September, 400 children had been held at Dilley beyond the 20-day limit. DHS did not respond to questions seeking comment on the data. Chief U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee of the Central District of California is scheduled to have a hearing on the case later this month. GARANCE BURKE Burke is a global investigative journalist with The Associated Press based in San Francisco. She focuses on artificial intelligence and government accountability, and her work has been honored as a Pulitzer finalist and with a documentary Emmy Award. She can be reached on Signal at garanceburke33. twitter mailto

Texas went from the NCAA tournament's First Four to the Sweet Sixteen, but coach Sean Miller said his team isn't a Cinderella after upsetting No. 3-seed Gonzaga on Saturday.

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