President Donald Trumps spending cuts and border security package would inject hundreds of billions of dollars into his mass deportation agenda. The Republican president's big bill would fund everything from an extension of the United States' southern border wall to detention centers to thousands of additional law enforcement immigration staffers. The immense cash infusion could reshape Americas immigration system by expanding the law enforcement bureaucracy and detention network while increasing costs to legally immigrate to the U.S. The bill sets aside $46.5 billion for what the House Homeland SecurityCommittee calls an integrated border barrier system along the U.S.-Mexico border and $45 billion to expand the network of immigrant detention facilities.

The United Nations will mark its 80th anniversary this month but theres little to celebrate. Its clout on the world stage is diminished. And facing major funding cuts from the United States and others, it has been forced to shed jobs and start tackling long-delayed reforms. But even as the U.N. tries to chart a new path for its future, the question remains: Can the global organization survive and remain relevant in an increasingly divided world where it has lost U.S. support and its most powerful body has been blocked from taking action to end the two major wars in Ukraine and Gaza? When the United Nations was born on the ashes of World War II on June 26, 1945, the overriding goal was preventing World War III.

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FILE - Team Rubicon volunteer Nicholas Duchnowski of Broomfield, Colo., moves belongings into an apartment that will be home to Afghan refugees, in the north Denver suburb of Thornton, Colo., Nov. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, Filepronto)