Leah Millis

Searching for Home

Thousands of migrants began banding together in large groups dubbed "caravans" and traveling together from Central America to the United States, hoping to gain asylum and a future.  

  • Migrants, part of a caravan traveling to the U.S., make a human chain to pull people from the Suchiate river that separates Guatemala and Mexico in Ciudad Hidalgo in Mexico.
  • Migrant Cara Martinez, part of a caravan traveling to the U.S., holds her daughter Dania Martinez, 1, at the border crossing after they were stopped there the day before in Ciudad Tecun Uman, Guatemala.
  • Migrants, part of a caravan traveling to the U.S., rest with bandaged feet in a gym after arriving in Mapastepec, Mexico.
  • Hand prints from dirt and mud are seen on the border fence in Tijuana, Mexico.
  • A man clutches on to a child, both of them members of a caravan traveling to the U.S., as he struggles to cross the Suchiate river from Guatemala to Mexico in Ciudad Hidalgo.
  • Jose Angel Salinas of Honduras bathes near a park as his fellow migrants, part of a caravan traveling to the U.S., rest in the park in Huixtla, Mexico.
  • Central American migrants walk along the highway near of Ciudad Hidalgo after crossing to Mexico from Guatemala with the hope of reaching the U.S. eventually.
  • Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, climb down a steep hill after giving up on trying to climb the border wall into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico.
  • Young migrant Zuria Castro, 4, cries silent tears as her mother Joselyn Castellanos brushes her hair while her brother Mateo Castellanos, 10 months, plays nearby as they rest in the middle of the Central Park of Miguel Hidalgo in Tapachula, Mexico.
  • Migrants, part of a caravan traveling to the U.S., rest after starting their walk before dawn from near Ciudad Hidalgo towards Tapachula, Mexico.
  • Jose Antonio Perdomo Zuniga of Honduras, sings and prays with other migrants from a caravan he is part of who are traveling to the U.S. while they rest in the Central Park of Miguel Hidalgo in Tapachula, Mexico.
  • A Honduran migrant from the caravan of Central American migrants, pulls a young boy through the border fence into the U.S. as other Hondurans scale the fence from Tijuana, Mexico to seek asylum.
  • Honduran migrants, part of a caravan of migrants from Central America traveling with the intention of reaching the U.S. jump over a border fence into the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico December 14, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis
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