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A mother is seen holding her child.

Trump’s new order on families at the border raises even more questions about what happens next for child migrants

We’re answering some of your most pressing questions about what happens next.

Trump’s new order on families at the border raises even more questions about what happens next for child migrants
Young girl walking on lawn, holding teddy bears

For this mother and daughter, separated a year ago at the southern border, Trump's ‘zero-tolerance’ policy isn’t new

For this mother and daughter, separated a year ago at the southern border, Trump's ‘zero-tolerance’ policy isn’t new
Agent in uniform stands on bridge looking over green river

This is what the ‘zero-tolerance’ policy on the border means for people fleeing violence

This is what the ‘zero-tolerance’ policy on the border means for people fleeing violence
A young refugee on the outskirts of Quai Andrieux in Calais, France, after a meal distribution, July 25, 2017.

Photos: As migrants return to Calais, French police try to stop the birth of a new 'Jungle'

Photos: As migrants return to Calais, French police try to stop the birth of a new 'Jungle'
Bambino, the youngest in his ‘brotherhood,’ is one of the lucky ones who ‘succeeded’ in crossing the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla.

Meet a boy who survived ‘The Crossing’

Meet a boy who survived ‘The Crossing’
Save the Children workers rescue migrants on a boat in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya

Aid groups rescue over 1,600 migrants in the Mediterranean in a single day

The World’s Richard Hall reported aboard Save the Children's rescue ship in the Mediterranean. On Tuesday, they saved 635 people — a record for the group's sea rescue operations. Doctors Without Borders rescued another 1,004 people on the same day.

Aid groups rescue over 1,600 migrants in the Mediterranean in a single day
Linawato Sidarto has lived in Amsterdam almost as long as she lived in Indonesia, but she says she doesn't think she'll ever be able to feel Dutch.

First- and second-generation Dutch wonder whether they'll ever be considered locals

Identity, integration and Islam were critical issues in the Dutch spring elections in the Netherlands. At the heart of the debate was who belongs in the Netherlands.

First- and second-generation Dutch wonder whether they'll ever be considered locals
students

US law students, driven by their own family stories, are helping asylum-seekers

At the University of California, Davis, law students take on immigrant cases, with guidance, and double as cultural navigators too.

US law students, driven by their own family stories, are helping asylum-seekers
Abdallah Khalil (right) with friends in northern Paris. Khalil arrived in Paris in December and hopes to get asylum in France.

French police don't want migrants getting too comfortable on the streets of Paris

As more and more migrants head to Paris, the shelters can't keep pace. Recently, the international NGO Doctors Without Borders brought in a mobile clinic to serve homeless migrants in the French capital.

French police don't want migrants getting too comfortable on the streets of Paris
A simple bed with a colorful blanket

Advocates say another privately operated immigration detention center for women and children is the wrong approach

“Sometimes I’d like to imprison the immigration officials, the judge, the president, so that they can endure 19 days in there with their children,” says one woman who was recently released from immigration detention.

Advocates say another privately operated immigration detention center for women and children is the wrong approach
Sign in front of center

Moms go on a hunger strike to get themselves and their kids out of immigration detention

After two weeks of skipping meals, the women are taking a short break. But they say will resume if the government does not consider their pleas to be released.

Moms go on a hunger strike to get themselves and their kids out of immigration detention
Rescuers try to revive an unconscious refugee who arrived on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos. Two unconscious arrivals were taken to a hospital and were later pronounced dead.

Not all those refugees are boarding ships voluntarily. Some are victims of extortion.

Migrants arriving on Europe's shores increasingly include those who were forced aboard unsafe boats, says Joel Millman of the International Organization for Migration.

Not all those refugees are boarding ships voluntarily. Some are victims of extortion.
From trash to haute cuisine--the ingredients of these servings of white bean and lentil salad with oranges and mint had been headed to the dumpster at a wholesale market before they were slavaged by the staff of Paris' Freegan Pony restaurant.

At this Paris restaurant, 'freegans' fight waste by cooking up food diverted from the dumpster

Researchers figure that roughly a third of all the food we produce is never eaten. In Paris, a new restaurant is taking a small slice out of all that waste by salvaging discarded food from a local market, cooking it up into fine cuisine, and serving it on a "pay-what-you-can" basis to a clientele that includes some of the city's neediest residents.

At this Paris restaurant, 'freegans' fight waste by cooking up food diverted from the dumpster
Migrant children board a bus outside the Notre Dame de Lourdes School in Anse-a-Pitres, Haiti, to return to their shelters after morning classes.

Here's a Haitian school struggling to absorb desperate migrants

Thousands of Haitians who lived and worked in the Dominican Republic have fled across the border under threat of deportation or violence. Many are taking shelter in makeshift camps. At one school near the border, teachers are struggling to teach the children of these uprooted migrants along with the rest of their student population.

Here's a Haitian school struggling to absorb desperate migrants
A migrant holds a barbed wire fence at the Macedonian-Greek border, near Gevgelija, Macedonia, November 29, 2015.

'Borders are alive and well — but for a price you can flatten them'

More and more people are fleeing wars, poverty and discrimination. Many leave their homelands in search of a better life, only to be stopped at various international borders. The lines determine who can enter and who can leave. Yet, borders can be flattened — for a price.

'Borders are alive and well — but for a price you can flatten them'