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A collection of photographs from Dec. 31, 2019.

The coalition, consisting of various members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, saw a version of the camp filled with Mexican military and federal police standing by, armed with rifles. The staircase leading up to a levee along the Rio Grande had been cleared of caked, dried mud.

Witness at the Border is credited with helping shut down child detention centers in Tornillo, TX and Homestead, FL. The coalition plans to hold daily vigils in Brownsville and Matamoros to call attention to the human rights abuses taking place in both the tent courts and on the streets of Mexico, where thousands of refugees are living homeless in an unregulated camp with no aid from the U.S. government.

Charlene D’Cruz is an attorney and Border Fellow with Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG). In October, she set up a full-time office in the Resource Center for Asylum Seekers in Matamoros, Tamaulipas as part of Project Corazon: Matamoros Legal Assistance Program. D’Cruz and attorneys working remotely help prepare thousands of refugees to self-represent their asylum…

When asylum seekers waiting in Matamoros, Mexico need emergency medical care, crossing the border into the United States is never a given—despite medical exemptions in the White House’s “Remain in Mexico” policy. “When we first got started, Border Patrol told one of our doctors that ‘this will not be a thing’,” said Helen Perry, executive…

Angry Tias and Abuelas of the Rio Grande Valley is a group of South Texas residents working to provide aid to families seeking asylum along U.S./Mexico Border. Joyce Hamilton, 68, is a retired college reading instructor, a grandmother, an environmental activist, and a founding member of the seven-woman coalition.

“The people in this camp are resilient. They want to cook for themselves. They want to provide for their own children. We owe it to them to provide the resources to be able to do that.”

The new development has been the subject of scrutiny by both camp residents and local aid networks, some of which have reported that residents will be forced to relocate by the beginning of January.

Mexican immigration officials arrived at a refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico early Tuesday morning bearing machetes used to destroy unoccupied tents left behind by Mexican asylum seekers, according to multiple camp residents who witnessed the event.