As Texas sends over 500 troops to secure its southern border in El Paso, Central and South American migrants desperate to begin a latest life in the US remain undeterred.
Facing freezing temperatures, fast-flowing water and the risk of being kidnapped by cartels or exploited by human traffickers, migrants risk their possessions, money and lives to cross the Rio Grande to the United States – often accompanied by their families and youngsters.
A migrant family boards a raft as they try to cross the Rio Grande from Matamoros City, Mexico, December 21.Abraham Pineda Jacome/EPA-EFE/ShThe immigrant is sailing from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande to the American side.Abraham Pineda Jacome/EPA-EFE/Sh
Migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border await transportation by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.
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The crossing of migrants is going on while the way forward for border policy stays unclear.
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The Biden administration decided to finish Title 42, claiming there was not any justification for the policy.
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Photojournalists were on site documenting the intrepid and dangerous journeys of migrants to the US.James Keivom
Their overruns come as the way forward for border policy stays unclear. The Biden administration has decided to finish Title 42, claiming there isn’t any longer any justification for Trump-era policies that allowed the United States to expel asylum seekers to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Despite the opposition of Republican politicians and the temporary intervention of the Supreme Court, the administration declares that it would really like to stop conducting politics after the holidays, which can definitely result in an excellent greater influx of migrants.
Photojournalists were on site documenting the intrepid and dangerous journeys of migrants to the US.
Below is a gallery of what they see:
Asylum-seeking migrants cross the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to El Paso, Texas, Dec. 22.
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Migrants line as much as be transported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on the Rio Grande River from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to El Paso, Texas, Dec. 22.
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Asylum-seeking migrants on the Mexican side of the border gather around a bonfire near the Rio Grande River on Dec. 21.REUTER
Migrants spend the night outside along the fence at the U.S.-Mexico border, waiting to use for asylum, December 21
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Blaidimar, 8, of Venezuela, warms up by a bonfire in front of the fence on the U.S.-Mexico border while waiting to file his asylum application in El Paso, Texas, Dec. 21.
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Venezuelan migrants watch as others line up at the border wall to be received by Border Patrol agents after crossing the Rio Grande River into the US on December 21.AFP via Getty ImagesTexas National Guard soldiers unroll coils of concertina wire near the U.S.-Mexico border, December 21, 2022.Getty’s paintings