An exterior view of Fred D Thompson Federal Building & Courthouse during the arraignment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on June 13, 2025 in Nashville, Tenn. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images hide caption
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U.S. National Guard stand protect buildings Tuesday in Los Angeles. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
A member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus holds a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a news conference to discuss Abrego Garcia's arrest and deportation on April 9, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
Maryland judge again asks government to return man wrongly deported to El Salvador
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, speaks during a news conference at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., Friday, April 4, 2025. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption
Judge orders the Trump administration to return man who was mistakenly deported
James Boasberg, chief judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, attends a panel discussion at the annual American Board Association (ABA) Spring Antitrust Meeting at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
17 members of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang and members of the MS-13 gang, who were deported to El Salvador by the US in San Salvador, El Salvador on March 31, 2025. El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele confirmed they will be sent to the country's infamous mega-prison at CECOP facility prison. San Salvador forces took heavy security measures. El Salvador Press Presidency Office/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption
In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, an Army soldier (right) and a Marine stand in front of the gates that separate the Cuban side from the Guantánamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, June 6, 2018. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption
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 sign is posted outside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection station in Clint, Texas, earlier this week, where lawyers reported that detained migrant children were held unbathed and hungry. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
A guard escorts a detained immigrant from his "segregation cell" back into the general population at the Adelanto Detention Facility in November 2013. Today the privately run ICE facility in Adelanto, Calif., houses nearly 2,000 men and women and has come under sharp criticism by the California attorney general and other investigators for health and safety problems. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
Watchdogs Cite Lax Medical And Mental Health Treatment Of ICE Detainees
A line of migrants released by U.S. immigration authorities waits to check in at the Catholic Charities shelter in McAllen, Texas on Jan. 11. Eric Gay/AP hide caption
Dr. Bert Johansson, an El Paso pediatrician, treats lesions on a migrant man's foot at a makeshift clinic within a local shelter. Monica Ortiz Uribe/NPR hide caption
It's Easy For Migrants To Get Sick; Harder To Get Treatment
Migrant Kids Survive Hardship To Reunite With Parents. Then What?
In May, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a "zero tolerance" policy aimed at people entering the United States illegally for the first time on the Mexican border. Over 1,000 immigrant detainees were housed in five federal prisons across the West. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption