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A lawsuit filed in California alleges a new type of workplace discrimination based on caste. Indians in Silicon Valley say this ancient social hierarchy has followed them to the U.S..

A young French tennis coach who once lived the American dream describes being detained, shackled and expelled under the Trump administration's tightened border rules.

Most of the characters in Edwidge Danticat's new collection are Haitian American, and Haiti is often in their hearts and on their minds. Danticat says the stories reflect her own immigrant experience.

After a two-hour meeting Friday with the leader of Myanmar's military junta, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announces that "all aid workers" are now being allowed into the country to help with the cyclone recovery effort. The development comes with quite a few questions, including where these aid workers will be allowed.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Moninder Singh about the reaction of the Canadian-Sikh community to accusations that India was involved in the killing of a Canadian-Sikh activist.

NPR's Lelia Fadel talks to Shawn VanDriver of AfghanEvac, a nonprofit that helps people resettle in the U.S., about what needs to be done three years after the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan.

Executive actions from the White House will offer parole to up to half a million immigrants.

The Justice Department is laying out quotas for immigration judges as part of their performance evaluations for the first time. It's part of a broader push by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to speed up deportations and reduce a massive backlog of immigration cases.

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was ordered released by a federal judge in Vermont in the latest setback for the Trump administration's effort to deport noncitizen activists it accuses of antisemitism.

We look at what the U.S. block on Palestinian officials from attending the annual U.N. General Assembly meeting this month could mean for Palestinian statehood.