Five lawyers support each other as they navigate the fast-changing, hostile world of immigration law in the US.
US-Mexico Border
![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=570%2C380)
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=570%2C380)
The US has expelled more than 159,000 people under a pandemic-related measure that effectively ended...
![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=570%2C380)
A bilateral agreement from 1944 requires Mexico to divert waters to the US as Mexican regions...
![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.
![Trucks arriving at a border customs control to cross into US at the World Trade Bridge in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico June 5, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/8be66e9ed9da41cf8735c76a321d091e_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Restrictions do not apply to people travelling for work, family care, educational or humanitarian reasons.
![Friends and family carry a coffin with the remains of Jakelin Caal, a seven-year-old girl who died in 2018 after developing a high fever while in the custody of United States Customs and Border Protection [File: Carlos Barria/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/f6507965df9147459ca68847c969e83e_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Guatemalan migrants Felipe Gomez Alonzo, 8, and Jakelin Caal, 7, died in 2018 after being detained by US border patrol.
![US court strikes down Trump ban on asylum seekers at the US southern border. Here, an eight-year-old unaccompanied minor from Guatemala, who was travelling without guardians, is registered by a border patrol agent [Adrees Latif/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/e9b48ed1e343486d81ff741654ed7475_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Ruling ends restrictive policy that had halted most asylum claims by migrants seeking entry at the US southern border.
![Supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador cheer after his victory in the presidential election on July 1, 2018, in Mexico City, Mexico [Goran Tomasevic/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/5a93280b637645429f6cda6edb4d7419_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Lopez Obrador’s administration has been beset by COVID-19, worsening crime, and pressure from the Trump administration.
![Tents line the pavement in the Matamoros encampment housing asylum seekers on the US-Mexico border that has seen its first coronavirus case [Pu Ying Huang/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/34aac793ec3344fe85f17380a4e83c63_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Immigrant advocates intensely worried about the potential for an outbreak in a camp housing an estimated 2,000 migrants.
![President Donald Trump tours a section of the border wall, which he said 'stopped COVID, it stopped everything', in San Luis, Arizona on Tuesday [Evan Vucci/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/befe612788d74c51b269cfd42d8bbda9_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
In visiting the US-Mexico border, Trump seeks to change the subject to an issue he thinks will help electrify his base.
![Central American asylum seekers who illegally crossed the Rio Grande nearby turn themselves in to US Border Patrol in Los Ebanos, Texas. [File: Loren Elliott/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/33c364dd8a46431fa26e1389af9bb60c_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Critics of measure say the proposed changes would ‘represent the end of the asylum system as we know it’.
![A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and arrested near the US-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas [File: John Moore/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/0fd6b593496345329a4d4977cb769247_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Case challenges Trump administration’s expulsion of hundreds of immigrant children at border citing the coronavirus.