Migrants have traveled hundreds, if not thousands, of miles to the Mexican border in a search of a better life. Many are turning themselves over to U.S. border authorities and seeking asylum.
Asylum-seeking migrants walk to where they can go through the border wall and be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday.Asylum-seeking migrants walk to where they can go through the border wall and be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday.
An unsheltered migrant family from Venezuela lays covered in blankets on the sidewalk in front of Sacred Heart Church on Wednesday.An unsheltered migrant family from Venezuela lays covered in blankets on the sidewalk in front of Sacred Heart Church on Wednesday.A fire smolders to keep asylum-seeking migrants warm as they wait to be escorted around the border wall to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after crossing the Rio Grande River into the United States in El Paso, Texas, U.