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Around 2000 Central American migrants cross the Sushiate River between Guatemala and Mexico as they perue their efforts to reach the United States, fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries. IMAGES
"We are going to strictly guarantee your human rights just like you have to strictly respect the laws in our country," says a government official as hundreds of Honduran migrants brave Guatemala's Suchiate River, on the border with Mexico, in an effort to enter the country and eventually reach the US.
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
They crossed the Rio Grande into the United States without papers and clutching their young children. Now, thousands of Central American immigrants face myriad challenges from finding work to threats of deportation, all without speaking any English. A month after meeting three undocumented families in Texas, AFP catches up with them as they adjust to their new lives near New York.
Central American migrants cross into Mexico from Guatemala via the Suchiate river as others await on the border to normalize their situation, amid speculation about the contents of Mexico's deal to curb migration in order to avert President Donald Trump's threat of tariffs.
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