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Ceci Garcia believes that if her husband had a better understanding of his rights, he would have avoided deportation to Mexico after telling a suburban Chicago police officer during a 2012 traffic stop that he was living in the U.S. illegally. “He failed to remain silent,” said the U.S. citizen mother of five. “He proceeded and told the truth.” The...

Ceci Garcia believes that if her husband had a better understanding of his rights, he would have avoided deportation to Mexico after telling a suburban Chicago police officer during a 2012 traffic stop that he was living in the U.S. illegally. “He failed to remain silent,” said the U.S. citizen mother of five. “He proceeded and told the truth.” The...

The surge of migrant families arriving at the southern border has led the Trump administration to dramatically expand a practice President Donald Trump has long mocked as “catch and release.” With immigrant processing and holding centers overwhelmed, the administration is busing people hundreds of miles inland and releasing them at Greyhound stations and churches in cities like Albuquerque, San Antonio...

The Trump administration is set to decide on Monday whether more than 32,000 D.C.-area residents from El Salvador can stay in the country. A woman who has lived here more than 20 years is dreading the possibility she will have to leave.

President Donald Trump’s plan to overhaul the nation’s tax code could provide significant tax cuts for the working-class voters who elected him, but the unknowns could end up hurting many of these core supporters of the president. A look at how Trump’s tax plan could affect families at different income levels:

The 911 call the night of the murder set into motion the investigation that eight years later would remain open.

Carlos Casas was shot and killed in South Los Angeles on May 3, 2009. Police are still seeking his killer eight years later. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017.