PHOTO COLLECTION: Trump Immigration

This is a photo collection curated by AP photo editors.

Volunteer Karen Parker lights a cigarette next to the border wall separating Mexico and the United States where a year ago she would offer medical aid to large groups of migrants who had crossed the border illegally to apply for asylum, in Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Women and children migrants walk with a larger group of migrants through Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, in an attempt to reach the U.S. border, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
Migrants walk through Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico in an attempt to reach the U.S. border, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
Migrants walk through Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, in an attempt to reach the U.S. border, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Edgar H. Clemente)
Venezuelan migrants Daniela Medina, right, and Oldris Rodriguez hug in celebration after entering the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico through the Paso del Norte bridge, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
Migrants hug after entering the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico through the Paso del Norte bridge, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
Venezuelan migrants from left; Oldris Rodriguez, Daniela Medina, Josue Fernandez and Jilbelis Sequera celebrate after entering the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico through the Paso del Norte bridge, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025 in El Paso, Texas.(AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
Migrants with appointments wait to present their documents to U.S. immigration agents as part of their asylum applications at the Paso del Norte international bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on the border with the U.S., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
Venezuelan migrants Ruthmervis Tiamo, right, and her daughter Sofia Ferrer become emotional while having a video chat with relatives in their home country after entering the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico through the Paso del Norte bridge, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025 in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
Colombian migrant Margelis Tinoco, 48, cries after her CBP One appointment was canceled at the Paso del Norte international bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on the border with the U.S., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)
Anti-Trump protesters march to Trump Tower as they rally for a number of issues, including immigrant rights, the Israel-Hamas war, women’s reproductive rights, racial equality and others, on the day of President Trump’s Inauguration, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
A group of migrants wait to be processed between two border walls separating Mexico and the United States after crossing illegally before dawn Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Migrants make their way to a Border Patrol van after crossing illegally and waiting to apply for asylum between two border walls separating Mexico and the United States, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Concertina wire tops a section of a border wall separating Mexico from the United States Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Palm trees are reflected as the sun sets along the border, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Hidalgo, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Migrants walk into Mexico after being deported from the United States at El Chaparral pedestrian border bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Migrants who were deported from the U.S. to Mexico wave as they are transported to a shelter, as they cross El Chaparral pedestrian border bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, late Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Floodlights illuminate the vertical bars of a border wall separating Mexico from the United States Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Migrants eat at a shelter Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
A Border Patrol agent looks through binoculars towards two border walls separating Mexico from the United States, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
A Border Patrol agent walks past four men being detained after crossing the border illegally through a gap in the walls separating Mexico and the United States, Jan. 23, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
A Border Patrol agent, left, escorts one of four men after the group crossed the border illegally through a gap in two walls separating Mexico from the United States before turning themselves in, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
A Border Patrol agent pats down one of four men after the group crossed the border illegally through a gap in two walls separating Mexico from the United States before turning themselves in, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
A Border Patrol agent directs men towards a van after they crossed the border illegally through a gap in two walls separating Mexico from the United States before turning themselves in, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
A Border Patrol agent instructs four men in a van after the group crossed the border illegally through a gap in two walls separating Mexico from the United States before turning themselves in, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Antonio Neri and his daughters, Evelyn and Melina, from left to right, wait at the Agape Mundial shelter Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
A child wrapped in a blanket walks through the Agape Mundial shelter Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Members of the Mexican National Guard patrol next to the U.S.-Mexico border wall Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Jean-Michel Gisnel cries out while praying with other congregants at the First Haitian Evangelical Church of Springfield, Sunday, January 26, 2025, in Springfield, Ohio. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain a person, center, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers use a chain to more comfortably restrain a detained person using handcuffs positioned in front, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers gather the personal effects of a person they detained, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Two walls separate Mexico from the United States along the border Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
A man takes an image with his phone next to where the border wall separating Mexico and the United States reaches the Pacific Ocean Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Michelle Flynn is removed from a House committee meeting on immigration by State Troopers during a special session of the legislature, Jan. 29, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Ashley Warbington is removed from a House committee meeting on immigration by State Troopers during a special session of the legislature Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
President Donald Trump holds the Laken Riley Act after signing it during an event in the East Room of the White House, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
A U.S. Marine Osprey is flown over the border Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, near San Diego. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The U.S. Border with Mexico is seen in an aerial view Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, near San Diego. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A sign is painted on the window of a vehicle as demonstrators shut down the 101 freeway during a protest calling for immigration reform Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY – Demonstrators shut down the 101 freeway during a protest calling for immigration reform, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
A demonstrator waves a Mexican flag while standing on top of a car during a protest calling for immigration reform Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
A young demonstrator waves a Mexican flag through a vehicle’s sunroof during a protest calling for immigration reform Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
Police stand during an immigrant rights protest Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Police face off with demonstrators during an immigration rights protest Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Police detain demonstrators during an immigration rights protest, Feb. 3, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
As a neighbor documents with a mobile telephone, a woman is escorted by a law officials from an apartment during a raid Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in east Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Migrants receive food from Panamanian immigration authorities upon arrival to Palenque, Panama, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The migrants are returning from southern Mexico after giving up on reaching the U.S., a reverse flow triggered by the President Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Migrants cool off in Palenque, Panama, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. The migrants are returning from southern Mexico after giving up on reaching the U.S., a reverse flow triggered by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Migrants ride on a bus to Miramar, Panama, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025 as they return from southern Mexico after giving up on reaching the U.S., a reverse flow triggered by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Venezuelan migrant Naomi Diaz sits on a boat departing from Panama’s Caribbean coastal village of Miramar to the border with Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025.
Venezuelan migrant Veiker Queral boards a boat departing from Panama’s Caribbean coastal village of Miramar to the border with Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Venezuelan migrants bathe in a river in Panama City, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Venezuelan migrant Yajaidys Toro plays with her daughter Alexa Garcia in Panama City, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Fatima Mercedes, whose son was recently detained, cries while being interviewed by journalists during a protest against ICE and migrant detentions in Elizabeth, N.J., Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Migrants, mostly from Asian countries, wait for transport to hotels after arriving in Panama City on Saturday, March 8, 2025, after spending weeks in a temporary Panamanian immigration camp following their deportation from the U.S. and being released on the condition they leave the country within 30 days. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Migrants from Cameroon arrive in Panama City, Monday, March 10, 2025, after they were held for weeks in a Panamanian immigration following deportation from the U.S. and released on the condition that they leave the country within 30 days. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A woman embraces her child outside a House hearing room during protests against a bill that would allow public and charter schools to deny immigrant students from enrolling for classes in Nashville, Tenn., March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
A crowd gathers in Foley Square, outside the Manhattan federal court, in support of Mahmoud Khalil, Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, center, watches as officers speak with a person passing through the San Ysidro Port of Entry, Sunday, March 16, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pilots a U.S. Coast Guard Response Boat Small with the Maritime Security Response Team, March 16, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
People wait in line to cross the border into the United States at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
As prisoners stand looking out from a cell, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
FILE – Micelle Beltran cries after a bill that would deny migrants access to education passed in a House Education Committee hearing in Nashville, Tenn., March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
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. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
A migrant reception center that normally received hundreds of people every day after they crossed the Darien Gap on their journey north to the United States, stands empty in Lajas Blancas, Panama, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
With her eyes filled with tears, Marilu Domingo Ortiz, whose husband was taken into custody by ICE agents after they smashed a window of their family car, describes the arrest during an interview at their home, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in New Bedford, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
A demonstrator holds a sign during a protest in Foley Square on the Day of Action for Higher Education, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
An aerial view shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Krome Detention Center, on the edge of the Everglades, Thursday, April 24, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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