With fewer children and more adults crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, the trend indicates a shift toward more economic migrants and fewer individuals seeking political asylum.

“There’s never one thing at work,” Tony Payan, Director of the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, told Newsweek. “Those who were waiting in Mexico are being let in, the flow is less, and the deportees are being processed more efficiently.”

LGBTQ+ individuals living in Central America's Northern Triangle face discrimination and violence. One trans women ventured to the U.S. and uplifted those in her community along the way.

"Those who arrived at the border and are already there in groups or caravans and are stuck there sometimes are so desperate they hire the services of a smuggler...a lot of smugglers visit migrant shelters and find new clients," said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera of George Mason University.

“Once (migrants are) released from custody, it’s all on the NGOs to provide support,” Shaw Drake a Texas-based staff attorney and policy counsel for border and immigrants' rights at the ACLU, told Newsweek. “CBP facilities are notorious for not providing sufficient medical care.”

Title 42, which allows for the removal of immigrants entering the U.S. from countries where a contagious disease was present, was implemented in March 2020 by the Trump Administration during the COVID-19 pandemic, and remains in effect under the Biden administration.

Texas' Laredo Community College inked a deal with U.S. Customs and Border (CBP) to form a partnership in which CBP will provide instruction at the school to students interested in law enforcement careers.

Border town economies that rely on Mexican tourism struggle as the U.S. and Mexico extend restrictions on crossing at the border.

Instead of being transported to a city like Phoenix with a robust nonprofit support system and steady means of transportation, asylum seekers find themselves in small Arizona towns like Yuma.

The remains of at least 3,356 undocumented border crossers have been recovered in Arizona since 1990, an average of more than 100 deaths a year, a University of Arizona study has revealed.

In all of 2020, there were 181 illegal train crossing encounters. In not quite four months of 2021, there have been 292. It is an incredibly perilous journey for the migrants.

Two local hotels in Imperial County, the Ramada by Wyndham Hotel in Holtville and Travelodge by Wyndham El Centro, currently house migrants awaiting processing, with each hotel at full capacity.

The demand for U.S. chicken abroad increases production at home, production which Karen Davis, president of United Poultry Concerns, said devastates its surrounding environment.

Some 49% of the U.S. agricultural workforce is undocumented. A new bill making its way through Congress would expand systems already in place that help U.S. employers hire migrant workers legally.

Some 49% of the U.S. agricultural workforce is undocumented. A new bill making its way through Congress would expand systems already in place that help U.S. employers hire migrant workers legally.

“Right now, I'm afraid we are incentivizing people to come here illegally, which is, I think, a terrible humanitarian tragedy during the route here. “

Of the 2,000 migrants, about 500 are children, who live in small camping tents without access to heat, permanent shelter, or consistent clean running water.

“More than a Dream, America is a need.”

On the Tijuana side of the U.S.-Mexico border, about a five-minute walk from Trump's border wall, more than 2,000 people live in tents at the El Chaparral migrant encampment.

“People are not running to the U.S.—they are running away from the situations that they are living in Central America.”