Monica Ortiz Uribe

Immigrant advocates say the policy, known as Migrant Protection Protocols, is not protecting migrants. It is difficult for lawyers to reach clients and puts migrants in danger.

Annunciation House, the main shelter for migrants in El Paso, is opening a new building to house families after they're released by ICE.

Residents along the Southern border with Mexico are not convinced that a longer and strengthened barrier will have much of an impact on their own safety and on border security.

Two children recently died in Border Patrol custody. In response, volunteers created pop-up clinics and the Department of Homeland Security ordered medical checks on kids in custody.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen visits the southern border to check on medical care for migrant children. NPR's Don Gonyea talks to Mónica Ortiz Uribe, who's been covering the story for NPR.

U.S. Customs & Border Protection says medical personnel will immediately examine the hundreds of migrant children under 10 years old in its custody, following the death of a second migrant child.

A migrant shelter in El Paso, Texas, says ICE officers delivered several hundred migrants to a bus station without warning. Normally shelter workers are given a heads up. ICE says it was an oversight.

Last month, the federal government announced it was expanding the shelter's capacity to 3,800 beds — making it the largest shelter in the system for kids who cross the border solo.

Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto has been released from months of detention after a judge found credible cause that his First Amendment rights had been violated.

The work of unifying families separated at the U.S./Mexico border continues although court-imposed deadlines to reunite them have past. In El Paso, the crisis has inspired citizens to get involved.