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The Trump administration has given an ultimatum to immigrants without legal status: leave now voluntarily, or you’ll be detained and deported.

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Russia lost a war in Crimea in the 1850s. To pay off war debts, Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. Now presidents Trump and Putin ...