Field Notes: Where Migrants Crossed the Rio Grande

Pacific Standard Staff
January 10, 2017
Reynosa, Mexico: Fresh footprints of migrants dot the bed of a dried pond just south of Mission, Texas, near the Rio Grande.

This photograph originally appeared in the January/February 2017 issue of Pacific Standard.

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