![Large construction machinery blows up dust along a recently built stretch of border barrier along the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Arizona on January 8, 2021 [Megan Janetsky/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/3PIC.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Environmentalists and scientists worry US-Mexico border wall could do permanent damage to biodiverse region.
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![Fernanda poses for a photograph outside her tent [Lexie Harrison-Cripps/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/7-Fernanda-24-09-20-August-332.jpg-16.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
From makeup practice to furniture making, Central American asylum seekers find ways to keep their spirits high.
![Parents of 333 children are believed to be in the United States, while parents of the other 295 are believed to be outside the US [File: Moises Castillo/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AP_20023472370221.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Parents of 333 children are believed to be in the US, while parents of the other 295 are believed to...
![An Austrian police special forces pilot tests a drone in Dadia village, near the Greek-Turkish border on March 11, 2020 [File: AP/Giannis Papanikos]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20071361177548.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Tech solutions have not made border control more objective or humane, but rather more dangerous.
![Residents in support of continued refugee resettlement hold signs at a meeting in Bismarck, North Dakota, in 2019 [File: James MacPherson/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/937877c03f0a411789d0da33422b5795_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The Biden administration must address curbs to the US asylum system that worsened under Trump, refugee groups say.
![Latino leaders and immigration reform supporters gather at Farrand Field on the campus of the University of Colorado in 2015 [File: Evan Semon/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2015-10-29T120000Z_2102457696_GF20000037144_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-REPUBLICANS.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Trump made election gains among Latinos, but outreach and economic populism could win them back, organisers say.
![Yami prepares food in the kitchen near her tent in the camp in Matamoros, northern Mexico [Lexie Harrison-Cripps/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1-Yami-21-10-20-Mata-Day-1-070.jpg-02.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Asylum seekers share stories of jobs lost, friendships found and days passed away in the tented camp of Matamoros.
![Dison poses for a photograph inside a wooden structure providing shelter over his tent in the camp in Matamoros, Northern Mexico [Lexie Harrison-Cripps/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/4-Dison-22-10-20-Mata-Day-2-258.jpg-13.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Residents of a camp located across the border from Texas reflect on what the US elections may mean for them.
Five lawyers support each other as they navigate the fast-changing, hostile world of immigration law in the US.
![David Xol-Cholom from Guatemala hugs his son Byron at Los Angeles International Airport as they reunite after being separated during the Trump administration's wide-scale policy on splitting immigrant families [File: AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AP_20023314203609.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Rights groups have been searching for parents by going door to door in Mexico and Central America.
![In this file photo from 2018, immigrant children are led by staff in a single file between tents at a detention facility next to the Mexican border in Texas [File: Mike Blake/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/3f3a9159455143659e36133687541b74_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The US has expelled more than 159,000 people under a pandemic-related measure that effectively ended asylum in March.
![Farmers clash with members of the Mexican National Guard during a protest against the decision of the Mexican government to divert water from La Boquilla dam to the US [Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/0f4fd61e4a4a479ba3b32e5e135bb769_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
A bilateral agreement from 1944 requires Mexico to divert waters to the US as Mexican regions experience drought.
![A resident of the refugee camp inspects the sandbag wall that was laid to protect the camp from the expanding river banks [Lexie Harrison-Cripps/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/d65cbe78e3e44b278e6a4d6ceea49cbe_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
People in camps in Mexico were forced to retreat to higher ground after the level of the Rio Grande rose by 12 feet.
![A Hampton Inn in Phoenix, Arizona was one of three hotels used to house the migrant children before they were deported [AP Photo/Matt York]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/8c6ffb0ada374f5dbebe543c30e9ff7f_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The Trump administration has been detaining immigrant children in hotels, before deporting them to their home country.