I was JUST talking about refugees last Thursday, but this has been in the news a while. Here's the latest:
Hoping for Asylum, Migrants Strain U.S. Border
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/us/poverty-and-violence-push-new-wave-of-migrants-toward-us.html?_r=0
And here is a link to a recent series on the US-Mexico Border from National Public Radio
(I highly recommend the whole series, but especially the story about refugees, found here).
http://www.npr.org/series/291397809/borderland-dispatches-from-the-u-s-mexico-boundary