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This week, President Obama announced an executive action to protect millions from deportation. NPR's Tess Vigeland speaks with Arlete Pichardo about her reaction to the news, and how it will affect her family.

Robert Siegel speaks with Dana Leigh Marks, the president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, about the legal process facing unaccompanied children who cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

There's been a dramatic influx of unaccompanied minors showing up at the border. Dianne Solis of The Dallas Morning News talks about what's behind the numbers.

The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four other accused terrorists entered a military courtroom in Guantanamo Saturday with a plan: to disrupt their arraignment at every turn.

The violence in Syria continues to escalate as another massacre was reported this week. The gunfire and explosions has spread to Damascus, where heavy shooting and explosions were reported on Friday night. U.N. monitors issued a preliminary report on Saturday that includes disturbing details for a country that is technically in a ceasefire, according to NPR's Deborah Amos.

The case of Chinese dissident Chen Guancheng has shined a light on China's human rights policy and the dissidents trying to change it from inside and out. A friend says that even if Chen comes to the U.S., he can still play a role in China's fight for human rights. A man who helped another dissident escape, however, says it might be more difficult to have an impact from afar.

Like the U.S., Mexico is struggling with a surge in illegal migrants. Mexico criticizes how the U.S. treats its migrants. But it faces similar criticism from Central American migrants in Mexico.

When hackers steal credit card numbers, the banks and major retailers pay. When they steal personal photos from an Apple account, the user shoulders the cost and can't take back the images.

Thuan Le Elston of USA Today talks with Scott Simon about her experience fleeing Saigon as a child at the end of the Vietnam War and how she relates to the current crisis in Afghanistan.

One maverick Palestinian believes the key to Middle East peace is a greater Arab understanding of the Nazi holocaust. Khaled Mahamed, an Arab-Israeli lawyer in the city of Nazareth, has set up the first Arab museum on the Third Reich slaughter of European Jews. But the museum has attracted the anger of both Arabs and Jews.