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Added on the 10/01/2019 00:49:38 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Migrants, mainly from Haiti, receive supplies including food, clothes and face masks from volunteers at a makeshift camp near the Rio Grande river (otherwise known as the Rio Bravo), on the Mexican side of the border with the United States. IMAGES
Seen from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, US soldiers stand guard by the US-Mexico border as they wait for the expiration of Title 42, a set of pandemic-era border restrictions that have prevented virtually all asylum claims. Tens of thousands of people are expected to make their case over the coming weeks, further inflaming America's already heated immigration debate. IMAGES
Men, women and children walk on the US side of the US-Mexico border after crossing the Rio Grande river that divides the two countries, before surrendering and being processed by US Customs and Border Protection agents. The US is readying its response to an expected surge of migrants seeking to enter as tens of thousands of people are waiting at crossing points for the end of pandemic-era rules that had forbidden virtually all asylum claims at the border. The so-called Title 42 expires overnight Thursday into Friday. IMAGES
Dozens of migrants attempt to reach the United States by swimming across the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Some then swim back to the Mexican side of the river after being warned away by Texas authorities. IMAGES
Migrants wade across the Rio Grande from Mexico and cross through barbed wire to reach Eagle Pass, Texas where they are met with Border Patrol agents. The city has seen an influx of migration. In the last 11 months, at least 1.8 million people have reached the southern US border. IMAGES
Migrants in Mexico's Matamoros cross the Rio Grande in an attempt to enter the United States a day before the end of so-called Title 42, a set of pandemic-era restrictions that have forbidden virtually all asylum claims there in the last years. IMAGES
Ciudad Juárez, Oct 17 (EFE).- Mexican and American activists gathered on Sunday at the border to clean up the Rio Grande (or Rio Bravo), contaminated for weeks by sewage spill from a company in El Paso, Texas. More than 500 members of Rotary clubs and volunteers from both sides of the border joined the project "Together let's clean the Rio Bravo", which occurred simultaneously in the Mexican border cities of Ciudad Juárez, Piedras Negras, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros. (Camera: RAÚL MORALES). SHOT LIST: VOLUNTEERS CLEAN UP RIO GRANDE AT THE MEXICO-US BORDER, IN CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO.
Migrants continue crossing between the United States and Mexico by wading through the Rio Bravo river (known as Rio Grande in the US), as the US struggles to stem a massive influx of undocumented people, many of them from Haiti. IMAGES
Migrants attempt to pull down a section of a barbed wire fence installed by Texas authorities on the Mexico-US border. The tensions on the border come amid an ongoing legal back-and-forth over a Texas law that would allow state police to arrest and deport migrants who cross illegally into the United States from Mexico. IMAGES
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