Scenes from the U.S.-Mexico Border

Central Americans sit outside a stadium-turned-migrant-shelter in Tijuana.

Mexican police troops stand by after Central American migrants attempted to run across the border at Tijuana.

Central American migrants gather in protest of Mexican authorities’ move to block access to the U.S. border in Tijuana.

Central American migrants face Mexican police who blocked the way to the U.S. border.

Mexican police watch and wait as Central American migrants gather at the U.S.-Mexico border at Tijuana.

Central American migrants asserting their right to seek asylum with a sign that says, “Respect for the rights of foreigners is peace.”

Demonstrators in Tijuana paint signs (here, the beginnings of an American flag) to take to the protest.

Central American migrants hold a makeshift American flag aloft as they make their way to the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico at Tijuana.

A man sporting a Honduran flag and a T-shirt emblazoned with an image of Donald Trump and a colorful message —“Fuck your mother Trump and America”— joins the group of migrants at the U.S border fence at Tijuana.

A man on a raised platform hoists an American flag amid a crowd of migrants demonstrating in Tijuana for exercise of their right to cross the U.S border as asylum seekers.

Migrants run after U.S. Border Patrol agents fire tear gas at protesters at the U.S.-Mexico border at Tijuana.

Mexican police rush to intercept Central American migrants at the border.

A Central American mother gives her children water after escaping the tear gas fired across the border moments before.

People gather on the Mexican side of the border fence at Tijuana.