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Migrant Camps and Shelters

27 images Created 30 Dec 2010

Undocumented migrants have trouble getting across the US/Mexico border and rely on shelters in border towns such as Tijuana and Piedras Negras to collect themselves before trying again to sneak across. Many find their way to migrant camps tucked in the hills of wealthy communities where the migrants find work in nearby fields. Others often end up in run down housing that also caters to migrant field workers.

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  • Migrants find a temporary respite at Casa del Migrante in Tijuana from the difficulties crossing the U.S./Mexico border. Many of the migrants suffer psychological trauma from failed crossings and from being away from their families, said Father Fanzolato who headed the Catholic shelter. The shelter provides one hot meal per day, prayer services and a place to sleep before the migrants continue north into California. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Outside a shelter for migrants stranded in Tijuana, Mexico, due to difficult border crossings into the United States, a man runs for a day laborer truck in hopes of making  money to pay for a professional smuggler. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A migrant on his way to America steps into the church at Casa del Migrante, a Catholic shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, before heading to try to cross the border into California. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A migrant offers his breakfast to another outside the Casa Del Migrante shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, a temporary home for stranded and destitute migrants attempting to cross the border or for those recently deported. Migrants are forced out of the shelter at dawn to look for work. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented immigrants gather at Casa del Migrante in Tijuana, Mexico before attempting to head north across the US/Mexico border. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Twenty-two year old migrant Carmel Sanchez prays at Casa Del Migrante shelter in Tijuana, Mexico. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented immigrants pray at a church service at Casa del Migrante in Tijuana, Mexico before attempting to head north across the US/Mexico border. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST.
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  • Migrants on their journey to the US often end up at Casa del Migrante, a shelter for migrants who have difficulty crossing the US/Mexico border. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • Migrants wait in a old motel used as a stash house in Agua Prieta, Mexico near the border with Douglas, Arizona until nightfall when they will attempt to cross illegally into the U.S. Migrants are often victimized on both sides of the border by smugglers and others who know the migrants are not likely to contact police. <br />
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  • Migrants gather to wash their clothes in reclaimed water in the hills of northern San Diego, California where many make their homes amid the bushes and scrub brush. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A migrant worker bathes in the hills of San Diego, California.  PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • One migrant cuts the hair of another at a migrant camp in the hills of northern San Diego, California where many live so they can save money and be close to the fields they work in. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • The immigration war took it's toll when this boy along with hundreds of others were forced out of a migrant camp they had built in a small San Diego, California, canyon near the fields they tended. The city bulldozed the camp. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Apartment complex where migrant workers live is dilapadated and infested. This family can't sleep in this room because of the extensive water damage and rot. Several of the girls toys lay on the cardboard. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • A migrant worker's daughter waits for her father to return from a nearby field in San Diego County, California. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Apartment complex where migrant workers live is dilapadated and infested. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • Apartment complex where migrant workers live is dilapadated and infested. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • SAN DIEGO, CA, MAY 4, 2007:  Migrants who work the nearby fields or wait for work at day labor sites often use McGonigle Canyon in San Diego county as home. They construct living quarters out of branches, leaves and mud in the middle of a canyon lined with modern homes. Local activist Robert Baca, who runs a mobile health clinic for the migrants, talks to a migrant making his way through the canyon.(Photo by Todd Bigelow/Aurora) Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • SAN DIEGO, CA, MAY 4, 2007:  Migrants who work the nearby fields or wait for work at day labor sites often use McGonigle Canyon in San Diego county as home. They construct living quarters out of branches, leaves and mud in the middle of a canyon lined with modern homes. Local activist Robert Baca, who runs a mobile health clinic for the migrants, inspects a place where a migrant has made camp. (Photo by Todd Bigelow/Aurora) Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • Migrants unable to cross the US Mexico border find respite in Casa del Migrante, a Catholic shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico.
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  • Migrants unable to cross the US Mexico border find respite in Casa del Migrante, a Catholic shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico.
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  • Migrants unable to cross the US Mexico border find respite in Casa del Migrante, a Catholic shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico.
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  • Migrants unable to cross the US Mexico border find respite in Casa del Migrante, a Catholic shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico.
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  • Migrants unable to cross the US Mexico border find respite in Casa del Migrante, a Catholic shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico.
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  • Migrants unable to cross the US Mexico border find respite in Casa del Migrante, a Catholic shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico.
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  • Migrants unable to cross the US Mexico border find respite in Casa del Migrante, a Catholic shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico.
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