U.S. Border Patrol next to the the border wall dividing Nogales, Ariz., and Nogales Mexico. Susan Schulman/Barcroft Media via Getty Images hide caption
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Tear gas thrown by U.S. border agents is seen near the border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday. Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Naser al-Shimary, deported this year to Iraq from the U.S., greets his four-year-old son Vincent at Baghdad international airport. Shimary had lived in the U.S. since he was five years old. He agreed to be deported under a practice halted by a U.S. court this summer. Jane Arraf/NPR hide caption
'They Know I'm Different': Deportee Struggles In Iraq After Decades Living In U.S.
President Trump visits U.S. Coast Guard personnel in Florida on Thanksgiving. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Roy Daley, 74, with his wife, Ana Smith-Daley, 71, (left) and his daughter, Lucy Figueroa, 41, at StoryCorps in Austin, Texas. Savannah Winchester/StoryCorps hide caption
'An Opportunity To Be Thankful': Reflecting On A First Thanksgiving In The U.S.
A few hundred people gathered in Tijuana's high-end Rio area on Sunday to protest against groups migrating from Central American countries. James Fredrick for NPR hide caption
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, celebrate. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Mounted Border Patrol agents ride along a newly fortified border wall structure in Calexico, Calif. Funding for the border wall is one of a number of administration priorities that may face challenges if the Democrats flip the House. Gregory Bull/AP hide caption
People line up to cross into the United States to begin the process of applying for asylum near the San Ysidro Port of Entry in Tijuana, Mexico. President Trump has threatened to close the border to asylum-seekers. Gregory Bull/AP hide caption
A migrant who scaled a border fence from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla shows their injured hands, in March 2014. Spain is seeing a record of largely sub-Saharan African migrants and asylum-seekers making risky journeys to enter the country. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A McDonald's billboard in St. Paul, Minn., advertises in the Hmong language. A new study of first- and second-generation Hmong and Karen immigrants finds their gut microbiomes changed soon after moving to the U.S. Education Images/UIG via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump arrives to speak at an election rally in Murphysboro, Ill., on Oct. 27. He is doing a slew of events leading up to Election Day. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Speaker Paul Ryan, pictured in September, said an executive order to remove birthright citizenship from the United States would be unconstitutional. The remarks from the Wisconsin Republican came after President Trump said in a taped interview that he was considering such an order. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
Paul Ryan Dismisses Trump Plan To Void Birthright Citizenship Law By Executive Order
Honduran migrants arrive in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, in a makeshift raft after crossing the Suchiate river, the natural border between Guatemala and Mexico on Monday. Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Central American migrants walking to the U.S. start their day departing Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, on Sunday. Despite Mexican efforts to stop them at the border, thousands of Central American migrants resumed their advance toward the U.S. border early Sunday in southern Mexico. Moises Castillo/AP hide caption
Irakere Picon, 29, and Arianna Hermosillo, 30, on their wedding day earlier this year in Oak Park Conservatory in Chicago. Courtesy of Arianna Hermosillo and Irakere Picon hide caption
Activists march to the offices of Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand in New York City in September 2017, just before the start of Senate hearings on stabilizing the Affordable Care Act. Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents serve an employment audit notice at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Los Angeles. California is divided over the state's new sanctuary law, which took effect earlier this year. Chris Carlson/AP hide caption
California Sanctuary Law Divides State In Fierce Immigration Debate
Voting With A Middle Finger: Two Views On The White Working Class
Archbishop William Lori announced a new program to issue parishioner ID cards outside a Baltimore church on Wednesday. Kevin J. Parks/Catholic Review Media hide caption
A new report released by the Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog found that doctors were not properly vetted, putting immigrants and U.S. citizens at risk. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
A U.S. Border Patrol agent stands at a highway checkpoint on August 1 in West Enfield, Maine. Scott Eisen/Getty Images hide caption