MATAMOROS, MEXICO - June 26, 2018: Families camp out on the Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge, where they have been waiting on the Mexican side of the bridge to be granted entry to the United States in order to seek asylum. Ilana Panich-Linsman for the ACLU
McALLEN, TEXAS - July 2, 2018: Undocumented immigrant families are dropped off by ICE at a bus station in McAllen, Texas, where a group of volunteers from Catholic Charities RGV helps them to secure a bus ticket to their next destination. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York TImes
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS - June 23, 2018: After being in a detention center, a group of undocumented immigrants are dropped off at the bus station in McAllen, Texas. Ilana Panich-Linsman for the ACLU
McALLEN, TEXAS - July 17, 2018: A boy sleeps beside a manila envelope detailing the long bus journey ahead of him. Busloads of migrant families are dropped off at the McAllen bus station after processing and detention by ICE. Most adults are wearing ankle monitors and clutching Department of Homeland Security bags with their belongings inside. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times
McALLEN, TEXAS - June 22, 2018: Undocumented immigrants walk into the bus station in McAllen, Texas after being released from detention. Ilana Panich-Linsman for the ACLU
MATAMOROS, MEXICO - June 26, 2018: Families camp out on the Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge, where they have been waiting on the Mexican side of the bridge to be granted entry to the United States in order to seek asylum. Ilana Panich-Linsman for the ACLU
McALLEN, TEXAS - June 22, 2018: Undocumented immigrants walk from the bus station to Catholic Charities RGV Humanitarian Respite Center to rest, take a shower, and eat a meal. Ilana Panich-Linsman for the ACLU
McALLEN, TEXAS - July 17, 2018: Mayra, 32, is comforted by her six year-old daughter at the McAllen bus station after recalling the threats her family received at home in Guatemala. Busloads of migrant families are dropped off at the McAllen bus station after processing and detention by ICE. Most adults are wearing ankle monitors and clutching Department of Homeland Security bags with their belongings inside. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS - June 23, 2018: After being in a detention center, a group of undocumented immigrants are dropped off at the bus station in McAllen, Texas. Ilana Panich-Linsman for the ACLU
McALLEN, TEXAS - July 3, 2018: A woman wears and ankle monitor at the bus station. Undocumented immigrant families are dropped off by ICE at a bus station in McAllen, Texas, where a group of volunteers from Catholic Charities RGV helps them to secure a bus ticket to their next destination. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times
PROGRESO, TEXAS - November 1, 2018: U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel, alongside a C.B.P. helicopter, run through a drill in a parking lot adjacent to the Progreso-Nuevo Progreso International Bridge. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times
EL PASO, TEXAS - June 28, 2019: A group of migrants from Guatemala walk for miles along the Mexican side of the border wall looking for an opportunity to enter the United States to seek asylum. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS - June 23, 2018: Ilana Panich-Linsman for the ACLU
MATAMOROS, MEXICO - June 28, 2018: Evelin Becerra, 21, and her daughter Jennifer, 2, from Guatemala wait on the Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge hoping to seek asylum in the United States. Families wait on the Matamoros side of the International bridge, hoping to be let into the United States. Ilana Panich-Linsman for the ACLU
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS - July 11, 2018: Isabella, 40, and Dayana, 17, pose for a portrait inside their motel room after Dayana was released from Southwest Key Programs Nueva Esperanza migrant youth shelter in Brownsville, Texas after she was detained apart from her mother for forty days. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times
MATAMOROS, MEXICO - August 19, 2018: Mbella, 38, wipes away tears when speaking about his five children he was forced to leave behind when he fled violence in his country. He waits on the Brownsville - Matamoros International Bridge, hoping to be able to claim asylum in the US. Ilana Panich-Linsman for TIME
TIJUANA, MEXICO - November 29, 2018: Gelnia Cruz, 21, holds her daughter Ashley, 1, under a big tent. She, her husband and two children have a relative in Louisiana, but the family hopes to make it to New Jersey. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times
TIJUANA, MEXICO - November 29, 2018: Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times
McALLEN, TEXAS - September 6, 2018: A group of Central Americans cross the Rio Grande with the help of a 'coyote'. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Marshall Project
EAGLE PASS, TEXAS - May 24, 2019: After being pulled onto a boat in the Rio Grande, a Honduran family cries as they are loaded into a CBP van. The family is Ãngel Gabriel (father), José Arturo, 16; Margarita Yamilet (mother); and Julie Abigail, 8. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times
MATAMOROS, MEXICO - April 2, 2019: On the Matamors side of Gateway International Bridge, migrants line up to eat food brought by volunteers from the US. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times
MATAMOROS, MEXICO - April 2, 2019:Isaac Javier Franco Cruz, 6, from Honduras, plays with a balloon in front of Gateway International Bridge. His mother, Edith, says they are looking for opportunity: she is a widdow and they were robbed and threatened. "I had to save my life and the life of my son," she said. They left Honduras on October 15th. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times
DILLEY, TEXAS - August 23, 2019: Inside an elementary classroom, a group of students sing "Happy and You Know It" inside the detention center. Inside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times HOLD, NOT FOR DAILY USE. HOLD FOR DETENTION - DICKERSON
MATAMOROS, MEXICO - April 2, 2019: Haidy Nicole, 7, from Honduras has been in Mexico for 5 moths, including some of that time in detention in Mexico, her mother said. "Where we live there are dangers. My son's life was threatened, they wanted him to arm himself and sell drugs. So we picked up and left." Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times