The images illustrate the frustration of those who live along the border and tell a harrowing story for those trying to make their way into the U.S. illegally.
British photographer Charles Ommanney spent three weeks traveling the length of the U.S.-Mexico border for an upcoming mini-documentary about immigration. The images he collected along the way illustrate the frustration of those living along the border and tell a harrowing story of exclusion and disillusionment for those trying to make their way into the U.S. illegally in large part from Mexico and Central America. The first part of the mini-documentary aired Monday on MSNBC. These are some of the things he saw.
In Brownsville, Texas, a man wearing an ankle monitoring bracelet takes a walk on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande where the river meets the sea.
Just a few miles west in Los Indios, Texas, a girl walking toward the river where she remembers swimming with her siblings as a child.
The river is now blocked off by a fence put up at the end of the family's garden by the U.S. government.
In the Mexican border town of Nuevo Progreso, a musician counting his earnings.
Via cnet.com
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