Top immigration photos of 2025 from AP

A protester taunts a line of California National Guard protecting a federal building in downtown Los Angeles, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer, File)

A protester is arrested by California Highway Patrol near the federal building in downtown Los Angeles, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer, File)

Migrants wearing face masks and shackles on their hands and feet sit on a military aircraft at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, Jan. 30, 2025, awaiting their deportation to Guatemala. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

Migrants walk into Mexico after being deported from the United States at El Chaparral pedestrian border bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez, File)

People place flowers on a fence outside Krome Detention Center in Miami, May 24, 2025, during a vigil to recognize people who have died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, as well as those affected by mass deportations. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

A group of migrants wait to be processed between two border walls separating Mexico and the United States after crossing illegally before dawn, Jan. 21, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Detainees wave and spell out SOS to a helicopter flying overhead, at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Krome Detention Center, July 4, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

People take pictures in front of a sign reading “Alligator Alcatraz” as passersby, some opposed, some in support, visit the entrance to an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, Aug. 28, 2025, in Collier County, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, center, and his brother Cesar Abrego Garcia, left, arrive at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

Venezuelan migrants depart Jaque on Panama’s Pacific coast en route to Jurado, Colombia, as they return home after failing to enter the United States, Sept. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

A U.S. Marine Osprey is flown over the border, Jan. 31, 2025, near San Diego. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Protesters confront police on the 101 Freeway near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, June 8, 2025, following an immigration raid protest the night before. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY – Demonstrators shut down the 101 freeway during a protest calling for immigration reform, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer, File)

As prisoners stand looking out from a cell, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

A police officer’s face is covered in pepper spray outside the Metropolitan Detention Center of downtown Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, 2025, following an immigration raid protest the night before. (AP Photo/Jae Hong, File)

Two California Highway Patrol officers try to dodge rocks being thrown near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, June 8, 2025, following an immigration raid protest the night before. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY A flash bomb explodes on the 101 Freeway near the Metropolitan Detention Center of downtown Los Angeles, June 8, 2025, following an immigration raid protest the night before. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer, File)

EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY – Protesters against U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement raids pass diners while marching through San Francisco’s Mission district, June 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Narel Lopez comforts her daughters after her husband and a son were detained and taken away in a bus following an appearance at immigration court, June 25, 2025, in San Antonio, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

A masked federal agent waits outside an immigration courtroom, July 8, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova, File)

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents escort a detained immigrant into an elevator after he exited an immigration courtroom, June 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova, File)

Federal agents detain Carlos Javier Lopez Benitez, center, from Paraguay as they pull away his sister, Porfiria Lopez, a U.S. citizen, left, outside immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits federal building, July 16, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

A protester is sprayed by a Department of Homeland Security officer outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, Oct. 2, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

An immigration official wears a face mask depicting a cigar and beard as he waits to transport detained immigrants, July 23, 2025, in Baldwin Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Haitian immigrant Nicole, who works at a meat processing plant, holds wildflowers she picked near her apartment, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Venezuelan migrant Luisleibis Navarro carries her son, as he waits to board a boat departing from Panama’s Caribbean coastal village of Miramar to the border with Colombia, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

People take cover as a fireworks explosion occurs during a protest near the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, June 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File)

Law enforcement officers stand after deploying tear gas outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility during a protest, Oct. 4, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

A woman from Peru signals through the barred and tinted windows of a bus after she was detained following an appearance at immigration court, June 23, 2025, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)