In this video, a refugee woman talks about her efforts to access medical care during nearly two years of detention in a county jail under the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The federal government has admitted that its negligence was responsible for the death of an illegal immigrant who pleaded during 11 months in custody for treatment for a condition that proved to be terminal penile cancer, the San Francisco Chronicle reports today.

Tope Awe, a University of Wisconsin student who was detained last month when Department of Homeland Security officials decided her father's medical visa had run out, is now free. But her case isn't over.

In the new film The Visitor, an unsuspecting college professor named Walter Vale is thrust into the middle of a modern-day immigrant story. Within days of befriending a young immigrant couple, he is forced to grapple with the harsh realities immigrants face in the United States today, and how unjust immigration laws affect all Americans.