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Migrants cross Rio Grande into U.S. under cover of night as detentions hit new record in 2022
Smugglers and migrants, Rio Grande river, Ciudad Miguel Aleman, Mexico. Migrants Cross Rio Grande Into U.S. Under Cover of Nght as Detentions Hit New Record in 2022. December 2022. A group of migrants are photographed by Chino, a smuggler with the Gulf Cartel, before being transported on a raft across the Rio Bravo del Norte, also known as the Rio Grande river, into the United States from Ciudad Miguel Aleman, Mexico July 13, 2022. The U.S. Border Patrol made more than 2.2 million arrests at the U.S.-Mexico in the 2022 fiscal year, the most ever recorded. This set of images chronicles the journey of migrants, most from Central and South America, as they make their final push from Ciudad Miguel Aleman, Mexico into Roma, Texas, United States after weeks and months of migrating north in pursuit of a better life. From dusk until the early hours of the morning, the smugglers will shuttle dozens of migrants across the often treacherous Rio Grande river on rafts and sometimes by wading through chest deep water. The final stretch of a migrant's journey into the U.S. comes at great risk, including torture, rape and drownings.
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