The UN in May declared on the “unprecedented migration crisis” in the Americas. On the night of May 11, the so-called Article 42, an immigration law that gave authorities the ability to quickly deport migrants crossing the border with Mexico, even if they were seeking asylum for reasons humanitarian aid, ceased to operate in the United States. . After that, tens of thousands of migrants from different countries began to accumulate on the border with Mexico, trying to get to America. What people are willing to do to get to the United States in search of a better life – in the Russian media photo gallery.
Men cross a barbed wire fence en route to the United States from Ciudad Juarez, MexicoChristian Chavez/AP
As the sun sets, migrants wait at the border gate to enter El Paso, TexasAndres Leighton/AP
Migrants wait for authorities at the checkpoint between the barbed wire fence and the US-Mexico border fenceChristian Chavez/AP
Volunteers distribute clothes to migrants across the border wall as they wait to seek asylum in San Diego, USGregory Bull/AP
Between two border walls in San Diego, people wait to seek asylum (left); The reaction of women who received permission to petition (right) Gregory Bull / AP
US Border Patrol officers escort women to asylum van, San Diego, USA Gregory Bull/AP
Near the gate in the border area between the borders of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, United States Andres Leighton / AP
Migrants cross the Rio Grande on an airbed to the United States from Matamoros, MexicoFernando Llano/AP
A man carries a suitcase with a child crossing the Rio Grande from Matamoros, MexicoFernando Llano / AP
Barbed wire and objects left behind by migrants on the American side of the Rio GrandeFernando Llano / AP
Migrants use air mattresses to cross the Rio Grande into the United States from the Mexican side (left); A child waits for the start of the crossing at the Rio Grande (right) Julio Cortez; Fernando Llano/AP
Migrants wave the American flag in front of a helicopter flying over the Rio Grande, in Matamoros, MexicoFernando Llano / AP
Venezuelan migrant trying to warm up in the rainFernando Llano / AP
Migrants on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande hope to enter the United States from Matamoros, Mexico (left); Two Texas National Guard soldiers on patrol near barbed wire on the banks of the Rio Grande (right)Fernando Llano/AP
Tents in a makeshift migrant camp on the banks of the Rio GrandeFernando Llano / AP
A Venezuelan migrant child watches from a makeshift tent on the banks of the Rio GrandeFernando Llano / AP
Migrants cooking in Matamoros, MexicoFernando Llano/AP
A woman with a child uses a blanket to protect herself from the rainFernando Llano / AP
Migrants make their way through barbed wire on the banks of the Rio Grande to surrender to immigration authorities. They are thwarted by the Texas National Guard. View from Matamoros, MexicoFernando Llano / AP
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