Volunteers with Borderlands Relief Collective provide aid to migrants in the Otay Mountain Wilderness near San Diego, Calif. Dozens of migrants seeking asylum come through the intensely rugged area each day. Ash Ponders for NPR hide caption
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Border patrol agents pick up migrants waiting to be processed in Dulzara, California on June 25, 2024. Zaydee Sanchez for NPR hide caption
Putting the immigration "crisis" in historical perspective Jackie Lay hide caption
Hundreds of migrants set up camp on the Rio Grande, waiting for Texas National Guard agents to let them enter the border wall in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on March 20, 2024. In the improvised camp there are infants and women, who sleep a few meters from gate 36 with the hope of being able to pass the knife fence. (Photo by Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images) Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images/Anadolu hide caption
Migrants huddling for warmth at an unofficial detention camp in Jacumba, Calif. A record number of people have arrived at the southern U.S. border in the past year. Ash Ponders for NPR hide caption
An unprecedented year in immigration, and in anti-immigration rhetoric
DACA counted some 636,000 active recipients — sometimes known as DREAMers — at the end of last year. Callaghan OHare/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
President Biden signs an executive order on immigration in February in the Oval Office. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Migrants are greeted by Taylor Levy (center), a local immigration attorney, at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in April 2020 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. People seeking asylum were enrolled in the Migrant Protection Protocols program, better known as the "Remain in Mexico" policy. The Department of Homeland Security announced that starting Thursday, it would stop new enrollments in MPP. Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
DACA recipients, including Carolina Fung Geng, (3rd from left), plaintiff Martin Batalla Vidal (center) and Eliana Fernández (3rd from right) hold their fists in the air as they enter the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty hide caption
The federal relief package will not benefit taxpaying undocumented people, such as the nannies who care for children, the home aides who care for the elderly and the mostly women who clean homes. Suwannar Kawila / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm hide caption
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Adelanto, Calif., is one of the detention facilities operated by GEO Group Inc. Richard Vogel/AP hide caption
Children and workers are seen at a tent encampment on June 19, 2018 in Tornillo, Texas. The Trump administration is using the tent facility to house immigrant children separated from their parents. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
New citizens wave American flags during a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization ceremony in Miami. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption
People in Miami protest the Texas district judge who on Tuesday temporarily blocked the implementation of President Obama's executive actions on immigration. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush speaks at the Reagan Library after autographing his new book 'Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution' on March 8 in Simi Valley, Calif. Getty/AP hide caption