Donations brought over the border from volunteer group Angry Tias and Abuelas are wheeled into the Matamoros migrant camp on Jan. 15, 2020. The encampment relies almost entirely on the efforts of volunteer groups and religious charities for food, tents and other crucial supplies as they wait months for their turn to apply for asylum.
Migrant women from the Matamoros encampment wait in line to wash clothes by the banks of the Rio Grande on Jan. 14, 2020.
A makeshift encampment near the border houses migrants in Matamoros, Mexico. As part of Migration Protection Protocol (MPP) migrants are forced to wait months for their asylum cases to be processed while remaining in Mexico — a shift from previous policy allowing migrants to seek refuge and resources in the United States as they build up their asylum case.
Mynor Emilio Cruz, Jose Jonathan Carrillo and Damian Meza take a break from constructing the new 'comedor' or dining hall structure at the migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico.
Volunteers from a synagogue in Washington D.C. serve homemade dinner to migrants outside the Matamoros encampment.
Children from the Matamoros migrant camp run down to the river bank where they prepare to take a swim in the Rio Grande.