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
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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
Fear Of Deportation Or Green Card Denial Deters Some Parents From Getting Kids Care
Honduran asylum seekers enter the U.S. at San Diego's Otay Mesa port of entry, as seen from Tijuana, Mexico. Moises Castillo/AP hide caption
President Trump's proposal to end the partial government shutdown includes not only funding for an expanded border wall, parts of which can be seen from Tijuana, Mexico, but also provisions that further restrict asylum seekers. Gregory Bull/AP hide caption
Honduran migrants wait in line to cross over the border checkpoint into Guatemala in Agua Caliente, Honduras. A new caravan of at least several hundred Hondurans has set off toward the United States on foot or in vehicles. Some have already crossed into Guatemala. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
An employee of Tokyo Electric Power Co. works at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant to decontaminate the area after the 2011 nuclear meltdown. A Vietnamese laborer in Japan on a training program says he was also put to work cleaning up the site, but with inadequate gear. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images hide caption
As Japan Tries Out Immigration, Migrant Workers Complain Of Exploitation
If confirmed, William Barr will lead the Justice Department for the second time in his career; the first was under President George H.W. Bush. Time Warner via AP hide caption
Asylum seekers stand at a bus stop after they were dropped off by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Greyhound bus station in El Paso, Texas on Dec. 23. Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced a host of "extraordinary protective measures" designed to improve conditions for children and adults held in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
About 200 Asylum seekers were dropped off by ICE as part of a wave of mass releases over the Christmas holidays, which began on the night of December 23. Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico where an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died in government custody on Monday U.S. Customs and Border Protection says. Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen looks at her papers while testifying before members of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday in Washington, D.C. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
When thousands of Hondurans and other Central Americans poured into Tijuana, Aguilar knew he had to do something. "They're from the same streets and cities as us. They're family!" he says. "It wasn't up for discussion, it was simply a matter of going out there and getting these people fed with a taste of home." Tomás Ayuso for NPR hide caption
A protester prepares to throw an object at the police during an anti-migrant demonstration outside of European Union headquarters in Brussels on Sunday. AP hide caption
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
Opinion: What The Death Of A 7-Year-Old Migrant Says About This Country
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