A federal agent wears a badge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement while standing outside an immigration courtroom at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York City, on June 10. Yuki Iwamura/AP hide caption
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The Hyundai Motor Group factory in Ellabell, Ga., on Friday. A day earlier, federal agents detained 475 people at the automaker's manufacturing complex. Parker Puls/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks to reporters before touring "Camp 57," a facility to house immigration detainees at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption
An agent said a monthslong investigation into the Hyundai plant resulted in "the largest single site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security Investigations." Mike Stewart/AP hide caption
A man is detained by immigration agents at a car wash on Aug. 15 in Montebello, Calif. Gregory Bull/AP hide caption
A member of the community writes a welcome back note for students on the first day of D.C. Public Schools outside an elementary in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 25, as a show of support as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and federal agent raids increase in the city. Neighbors, volunteers and parents clapped, blew whistles and shook tambourines as they accompanied children to school. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
For mixed status families, deportation fears cast shadow over new academic year
A child looks at the badge of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption
Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference with immigration experts, DACA recipients and DREAMers to mark the 13th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in Washington, D.C., on June 11, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Even if Alligator Alcatraz closes, it's legacy will live on. Getty Images hide caption
President Trump speaks during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks as President Trump looks on in the Oval Office at the White House on Sept. 2., 2025 in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
Members of the California National Guard and U.S. Marines guard a federal building in June. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Guatemalan Minister of Governance Francisco Jimenez shake hands after signing a memorandum of understanding on a joint security program agreement at the Palacio Nacional de la Cultura on June 26 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Staffers of the Attorney General's Office take the data of relatives outside of the Returnee Reception Center while waiting for the arrival of minors intended to be deported from the United States, at the Guatemalan Air Force Base in Guatemala City on Aug. 31. Johan Ordonez/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children can stay in U.S. for now, judge says
Utah Violinist Donggin Shin — who goes by John — was arrested and detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Colorado on Aug. 18. His wife, DaNae Shin, set up a GoFundMe Page featuring this family photo to help raise money to cover his legal fees. Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Response Team members demonstrate how the team enters a residence in the pursuit of a wanted subject at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) in Brunswick, Ga. on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. Fran Ruchalski/AP hide caption
Did PresidentTrump bet wrong on his aggressive immigration policy? Getty Images hide caption
A member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus holds a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a news conference to discuss his arrest and deportation on April 9 in Washington, D.C. The Trump administration wants to deport him to Uganda. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
If Abrego Garcia is deported to Uganda, here’s how it might happen
Federal agents, including members of ICE, drag a man away after his court hearing as they patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building on July 24, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Kilmar Abrego Garcia (center) and his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura (center right), enter a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office on Monday in Baltimore, Md. The U.S. government is threatening to deport Abrego Garcia, a Maryland construction worker from El Salvador, to Uganda after he rejected a plea deal to be charged with human smuggling and deported to Costa Rica. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials stand outside immigration courtrooms while cases are being heard at 290 Broadway in New York. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption
Confusion, explosive anger and waiting: NPR spent a day in New York immigration court
Mounted police officers scuffle with demonstrators during a protest by anti-migrant Abolish Asylum System and counter protesters at Castle Park in Bristol, England on Saturday. Ben Birchall/PA hide caption
Attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg speaks outside the U.S. District Court for Maryland after a hearing on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case on July 10 in Greenbelt, Md. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
What it means that Abrego Garcia faces deportation again
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, center, leaves the Putnam County Jail, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Cookeville, Tenn. Brett Carlsen/AP hide caption