In Pictures: A game of hide-and-seek at the border
A Central American migrant is held inside a U.S. Border Patrol unit in Sunland Park earlier this month. So far this fiscal year, more than 1.5 million people have been intercepted by the Border Patrol along the Southwest border. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
Migrants detained in Sunland Park in early June talk about the work they did in their home countries before fleeing. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
An elderly Mexican migrant is apprehended after crossing the Rio Grande into the U.S. near the New Mexico/Texas/Mexico border in early June. Many migrants, desperate to leave the poverty and crime of their homes, endure harrowing journeys for the chance to slip through the U.S. border. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
Border Patrol agent Carlos Rivera tracks a group of migrants who snuck in a tunnel and crossed the Rio Grande into the U.S near the border between Mexico and New Mexico in early June. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
Central American migrants detained in a Sunland Park neighborhood in early June. One Border Patrol agent estimates that about 50% of those who try to get into the U.S. illegally are caught. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
A migrant woman sits in a transport vehicle after being processed inside a mobile processing unit in Sunland Park. The Border Patrol is now using a mobile center to speed up the processing of immigrants who are apprehended. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
A migrant from Brazil drinks water handed to him by Border Patrol in Sunland Park, New Mexico, in early June. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
Migrants from Brazil and Mexico are apprehended by a mounted Border Patrol unit in Sunland Park, New Mexico, in early June. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
A young woman who fractured her ankle after jumping the fence into the U.S. near a Sunland Park neighborhood in early June waits to receive medical attention. She was taken to a local hospital. The border wall in some areas can be almost 20 feet high. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
A Homeland Security helicopter searches for groups of migrants crossing into New Mexico. In the background is the Ciudad Juárez neighborhood of Anapra. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
A Homeland Security helicopter searches for groups of migrants crossing into New Mexico, near Mt. Cristo Rey Park. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)