19 Of The Most Important Immigration Stories Of 2018

The US announced that nearly 200,000 Salvadorans who've had temporary permission to live in the United States would lose their status.

The separation of 1-year-old Mateo (left, in yellow, with his father at the border in 2017) by immigration authorities and the ordeal his parents endured was a sign of things to come for hundreds of families in 2018.

While smaller caravans have been organized as far back as 2008, the size of the March caravan attracted the ire of President Trump, which tried unsuccessfully to stop the caravan from reaching the US border by pressuring the Mexican government to disband it.

The federal agency in charge of processing citizenship shuttered all of its offices at US Army basic training locations, putting up another roadblock for immigrant recruits who were promised a fast track to citizenship in return for their service.

Never before had the organizers of a group of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States faced such opposition from a president. It was a lesson in the consequences, in the age of Trump, of getting the attention you thought you wanted and the double-edged sword of media coverage.

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions made it virtually impossible for immigrants to win asylum if they were victims of domestic abuse or gang violence.

State and local officials were kept in the dark about where children were being sent, even when it was in their own backyard.

Although many immigrants pay coyotes to take them north, thousands make the trek on their own, though you wouldn’t know it from the way President Donald Trump talks.

The widespread "victimization by criminal aliens,” one of Trump’s favorite talking points, never materialized.

Pregnant women in immigration detention under the Trump administration said they had been denied medical care, shackled around the stomach, and abused.

Hundreds of bodies are found in the Sonoran Desert every year. Activists said that number will rise following the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Matthew Albence's rise to the number two position in ICE was a move that could indicate a hard line on immigration from the agency.

The Border Patrol shooting of Claudia Patricia Gómez González, a young Guatemalan immigrant, remained a mystery months after she was killed. A phone video provides the only clue about what happened.

O'Neill, Nebraska, had become a refuge for scores of Central Americans fleeing poverty and unrest. An ICE raid changed all that.

A look at how Jeff Sessions shaped immigration policy like few others in the Trump administration.

BuzzFeed News gave six kids cameras to show what the world looks like to them.

US authorities temporarily shut one of the world's busiest border crossings, after hundreds of migrants from Central America evaded a phalanx of Mexican police, crossed a small river, and marched down a side street in front of a pedestrian crossing.

Unwilling to wait weeks in Mexico to press their asylum claims, a group of 30 caravan members, with a BuzzFeed News reporter in tow, searched for a way to skirt the border barriers.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development hasn’t announced a formal policy denying FHA loans for DACA recipients, but lenders tell BuzzFeed News that’s the guidance they’re getting from officials.