Senate Republicans pass bill authorizing $70bn for immigration enforcement in vote-a-rama – US politics live
by Lucy Campbell (now); Marina Dunbar and Vivian Ho ( from World news | The Guardian on (#763RK)
Passage came after more than 18 hours of vote-a-rama' process; Lisa Murkowski was the only Republican senator to vote against it
Nine out of 15 migrants deported from the US to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in April have returned to their home countries, Congo's government, a migrant and her lawyer said on Friday.
The 15 migrants arrived in Congo on April 17 as part of a bilateral agreement with the Trump administration announced two weeks earlier to accept third-country deportees from the US. Congo's government said in a statement on Friday that more than half" of the migrants had since returned to their countries and that others would return shortly.
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