A lot of Iowa business owners in towns like Mount Pleasant are facing chronic labor shortages. One solution is to encourage more outsiders to come to the state, including immigrants. Jim Zarroli/NPR hide caption
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Drivers line up in the border city of Juárez in Mexico's Chihuahua state, as they attempt to cross the border at El Paso, Texas. The Guatemalan consul has confirmed that a Guatemalan boy apprehended with his mother last month had died Tuesday night. Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
President Trump tours a portion of the border wall between the United States and Mexico in Calexico, Calif., last month. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Vianeth Avila's husband, Cuban-born Jesus Avila, was detained by immigration officials at the airport as they returned from their honeymoon. In recent years, the U.S. government has taken a tougher stand against Cuban immigrants. Daniel Rivero/WLRN hide caption
An asylum-seeker rests outside El Chaparral port of entry while he waits for his turn to present himself to U.S. border authorities to request asylum, in Tijuana, Mexico, last month. A federal appeals court has granted the Trump administration's request to temporarily allow the government to continue to return asylum-seekers to Mexico while it appeals an ruling that blocked the policy. Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
President Trump has selected a former FBI agent and veteran of the Obama administration to lead ICE. Cliff Owen/AP hide caption
Gusmary Añez sits in a tent with two of her children. She and her husband, along with their four children, had been sleeping outdoors in Maicao, a Colombian town near the Venezuelan border. Now they live in one of 60 tents at the camp that house more than 300 Venezuelans. John Otis for NPR hide caption
Venezuelans Find Temporary Lifeline At Colombia's First Border Tent Camp
Children are carried on the shoulders of Central American migrants heading to the U.S. along the road between Metapa and Tapachula, Mexico, on April 12. President Trump has called for measures to close what he calls the asylum "loophole" amid a spike in border crossings. Pep Companys/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Reprinted from I Was Their American Dream (copyright 2019 by Malaka Gharib). Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC hide caption
On Thursday, Andrew Lelling, U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, revealed federal charges against a Massachusetts judge and a former court officer for allegedly preventing an immigration official from taking custody of an undocumented immigrant defendant. Steven Senne/AP hide caption
Mass. Judge And Retired Court Officer Charged With Helping Defendant Evade ICE
U.S. Attorney General William Barr decided on Tuesday that asylum-seekers who clear a "credible fear" interview and are facing removal don't have the right to be released on bond by an immigration court judge while their cases are pending. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
Central American migrants stand at the U.S.-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas. The migrants turned themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents, seeking political asylum in the United States. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
Kirstjen Nielsen, then Homeland Security Secretary, testified on Capitol Hill before the House Homeland Security Committee in March. She said "cases of fake families are cropping up everywhere," among the surge of migrants at the Southern border. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
Dr. Carlos Gutierrez examines a young girl at a shelter in El Paso that was set up for recent migrants. The girl's mother said her daughter's deep cough arose while the family was in immigration custody. Anna Maria Barry-Jester/Kaiser Health News hide caption
Caminantes walk back toward Venezuela on the road between Bogotá and Socorro, Colombia. Thousands cross the border each day. Many head back to their home country after failing to find work or shelter. Ryan Kellman/NPR hide caption
Chronicles Of A Venezuelan Exodus: More Families Flee The Crisis On Foot Every Day
Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, 18, addresses the media during a news conference at a refugee resettling agency in Toronto on Jan. 15. She pledged to "work in support of freedom for women around the world, the same freedom I experienced on the first day I arrived in Canada." Cole Burston/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on Tuesday the agency is seeking to close all of its foreign field offices around the world, a move introduced by Director L. Francis Cissna. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Friday that it was implementing new guidelines to identify minors in spousal and fiancée visas. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption
President Trump speaks on a deal to end the partial government shutdown last month. While Trump is expected to maintain his demand for border wall funding in his State of the Union speech, he is also expected to mention issues that carry bipartisan support. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
On Thursday ICE officials confirmed at least six immigrant detainees on a hunger strike are being force-fed through a nasal tube. Salwan Georges/The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption
Muneer Subaihani at the airport in Baghdad on Tuesday, waiting to board the first of his flights back to the United States. Ahmed Qusay for NPR hide caption
Carlos Catarldo Gomez, of Honduras, center, is escorted by Mexican officials after leaving the United States, the first person returned to Mexico to wait for his asylum trial date, in Tijuana, Mexico Gregory Bull/AP hide caption
Children of Mexican immigrants wait to receive a free health checkup inside a mobile clinic at the Mexican Consulate in Denver, Colo., in 2009. The Trump administration wants to ratchet up scrutiny of the use of social services by immigrants. That's already led some worried parents to avoid family health care. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption