MATAMOROS ASYLUM SEEKERS 2020

Viridiana Lara Villalvaso, center, mother of three children, washes clothes in the Rio Grande River that separates the tent encampment where they have been staying in Matamoros, Mexico and the United States (seen across the river) on Sunday, February 16, 2020. She and her family are from Vera Cruz, Mexico, and have been in the camp for 20 days when this photograph was taken. She and her husband owned a small shop and were threatened by local drug dealers that if they didn't pay, their children would be kidnapped. They left immediately for the border.

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Viridiana Lara Villalvaso, center, mother of three children, washes clothes in the Rio Grande River that separates the tent encampment where they have been staying in Matamoros, Mexico and the United States (seen across the river) on Sunday, February 16, 2020. She and her family are from Vera Cruz, Mexico, and have been in the camp for 20 days when this photograph was taken. She and her husband owned a small shop and were threatened by local drug dealers that if they didn't pay, their children would be kidnapped. They left immediately for the border.