Migrants Cross Into US From Mexico

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents check migrants' belongings. This group of Guatemalan migrants, which includes a child, wait to be processed by an agent, April 9, 2019. C. Mendoza/VOA News

A group of Guatemalan migrants, including five families, waits inside a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol truck after being processed at the crossing at El Paso, Texas, April 9, 2019. They said they walked from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and turned themselves in to

Agent C. Baca processes a group of Guatemalan migrants who turned themselves in to authorities after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization, at the border between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, April 9, 2019. 

A migrant Guatemalan mother holds her infant child, who she said is sick with a cold. They are part of a group who turned themselves over to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents after crossing the border at Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, April 9, 2019. C. Mendoza/VOA News

A group of Guatemalan migrants wait to be processed at the border in El Paso, Texas, April 9, 2019. C. Mendoza/VOA News

Construction workers plan to finish this 6.5-kilometer stretch of border between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, by the end of April 2019. C. Mendoza/VOA News