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Immigrants and activists protest to demand that the Department of Homeland Security extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 195,000 Salvadorans, January 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Andrew Caballero Reynolds)

Biden pauses deportations for 100 days

Julián Aguilar - The Texas Tribune
US President Donald Trump visits the US-Mexico border fence in Otay Mesa, California on September 18, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Court will hear cases on border wall

Julián Aguilar - The Texas Tribune
Supporters of the NGO Sea-Watch hold flags and rescue blankets during a demonstration in solidarity with the German captain of rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3, Carola Rackete, on July 6, 2019 outside the Chancellery in Berlin. (Omer Messinger/AFP via Getty Images)

Europe shuts out migrants

Michelle Chen - Truthout
A Guatemalan Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agent speaks with travelers at the airport on August 26, 2019 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. (John Moore/Getty Images)

US to send asylum seekers to Guatemala

Jack Herrera - Truthout
Stephen Miller, senior adviser to the president and architect of immigration policy (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

New immigration crackdown fails

Sophia Tesfaye
Stephen Miller; Donald Trump; Jared Kushner (AP/Andrew Harnik/Getty/Saul Loeb)

Trump's cruel new immigration crackdown

Sophia Tesfaye
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press during a signing of a “safe third country” agreement in the Oval Office of the White House July 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump bullies Guatemala in new deal

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
A migrant woman and her daughter, who are taking part in a caravan towards the US, cuddle up to rest during a stop in their journey in Mexico City, on November 6, 2018. (Getty/Alfredo Estrella)

Canada must not be complicit

Sean Rehaag - The Conversation
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC), begins a markup over immigration policy on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. (AP/J. Scott Applewhit)

Graham committee descends into chaos

Igor Derysh
In this Oct. 23, 2018 image, people seeking asylum in the United States line up to receive a number at the border in Tijuana, Mexico. The first obstacle that migrants in a giant caravan may face if they reach the U.S. border is a long wait in Mexico. To enter through San Diego, the wait in Mexico is a month or longer. (AP/Gregory Bull)

Trump rule disqualifies asylum seekers

Dara Lind - ProPublica
Stephen Miller, senior adviser to the president and architect of immigration policy (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

Stephen Miller wants zero refugees

Igor Derysh
(AP/Getty/Salon)

What raids? ICE suddenly goes quiet

Sophia Tesfaye
U.S. Attorney General William Barr (AP/Vadim Ghirda)

Judge blocks Barr on holding migrants

Igor Derysh
The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria lie on the bank of the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Monday, June 24, 2019, after they drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. (AP/Julia Le Duc)

Maybe the Hitler comparisons are fair

Lucian K. Truscott IV
(Getty/Salon)

Trump's "greatness": Abuse and cruelty

Amanda Marcotte
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/Don Emmert)

AOC decries Trumps "concentration camps"

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
Tania (not her real name) washes clothes at a shelter in Mexicali where she stayed with her family for several weeks, first waiting to apply for asylum, and then waiting for a court hearing. A week after this photo was taken, she fainted in the heat and was hospitalized. (Anna Maria Barry-Jester/Kaiser Health News) (Anna Maria Barry-Jester/Kaiser Health News)

Heat and violence pose threats at border

Anna Maria Barry-Jester - KFF Health News
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (Getty/Anna Moneymaker)

Lindsey Graham: Hold kids for 100 days

Igor Derysh
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump wants migrants to pay

Shira Tarlo
FILE - In this May 11, 2016, file photo, Tim Foley shows how to climb a section of the border wall separating Mexico and the United States near where it ends as journalists Chitose Nakagawa, right, and Marcie Mieko Kagawa look on in Sasabe, Ariz. Foley, a former construction foreman, founded Arizona Border Recon, a group of armed volunteers who dedicate themselves to border surveillance. With bids due Tuesday, April 4, 2017, on the first border wall design contracts, companies are preparing for the worst if they get the potentially lucrative but controversial job. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File) (AP)

Vigilantes on the border

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
Attorney General William Barr testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee regarding the fiscal year 2020 budget request for the Justice Department on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. (Jeff Malet)

Bill Barr cracks down on asylum seekers

Shira Tarlo
Donald Trump salutes as a U.S. customs and Border Protection helicopter passes as he tours the U.S. border with Mexico at the Rio Grande on the southern border, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, in McAllen, Texas. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Unite the whites: It's Trump's GOP now

Heather Digby Parton

Asylum-seekers are going to Canada

Sean Rehaag - The Conversation
Migrants held in temporary fencing underneath the Paso Del Norte Bridge await processing on March 28, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (Getty/Christ Chavez)

Why Trump loves kids in cages

Amanda Marcotte
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