U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's fugitive operations team makes an arrest at a home in Paramount, Calif., on March 1, 2020. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters hide caption
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Protesters gather for a news conference in Atlanta earlier this year, shortly after the release of a complaint by whistleblower Dawn Wooten, a nurse at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga. Jeff Amy/AP hide caption
ICE, a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security, has issued guidelines preventing newly enrolled international students from studying in the U.S. if their colleges are operating only online this fall. Eva Hambach/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A guard walks with a detainee in the intake area at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in 2019. A previously confidential report obtained by NPR found "negligent" medical care and other problems at the facility. Chris Carlson/AP hide caption
Despite Findings Of 'Negligent' Care, ICE To Expand Troubled Calif. Detention Center
The Pew Research Center estimates there are 7.5 million unauthorized workers in the United States concentrated in agriculture, construction and the hospitality industry. Karina Perez for NPR hide caption
Employers Struggle With Hiring Undocumented Workers: 'You Cannot Hire American Here'
A Guatemalan teen asylum-seeker (left), who isn't able to hear or speak, signs with his mom in Florida. He was brusquely separated from her and held in a shelter for nearly three months, unable to readily communicate, according to a civil rights complaint filed with the Department of Homeland Security. Susan Ferriss/Center for Public Integrity hide caption
Homeland Security's Civil Rights Unit Lacks Power To Protect Migrant Kids
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Homeland Security's Civil Rights Unit Lacks Power To Protect Migrant Kids
A razor wire fence surrounds the Adelanto immigration detention center, in Adelanto, Calif., April 13, 2017. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters hide caption
'No Meaningful Oversight': ICE Contractor Overlooked Problems At Detention Centers
Bianey Reyes (center) and others protest the separation of children from their parents in front of El Paso Processing Center, an immigration detention facility, at the Mexican border on June 19, 2018, in El Paso, Texas. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Opinion: The 'Filthy And Uncomfortable Circumstances' Of Detained Migrant Children
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