Good Friday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today.

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• Without notice, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services eliminated a program this month that had allowed immigrants to avoid deportation while they or their relatives were undergoing lifesaving medical treatment. Called “deferred action,” the program had provided a form of humanitarian relief from deportation for at least 1,000 applicants every year.

• House Democratic aides were blocked from spot visits to 11 detention facilities on the Mexican border, but even with the inspections they got, they heard complaints of toddlers and an infant eating age-inappropriate burritos, eating soup off the floor and living in soiled diapers.

• A new policy that denies automatic citizenship to some babies born abroad to federal workers will affect few families, but the political backlash has been fierce, especially from United States service members.