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In the Matamoros camp on the Mexican side of the U.S. border, Esmeralda, a community leader from Honduras, pauses in wielding a pickaxe, digging a ditch to keep water runoff from her improvised kitchen from muddying the path below. She is one of thousands of refugees who have been forced to stay as a result of the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols, or "Remain in Mexico" policy. (GSR photo / Tracy L. Barnett)
In the Matamoros camp on the Mexican side of the U.S. border, Esmeralda, a community leader from Honduras, pauses in wielding a pickaxe, digging a ditch to keep water runoff from her improvised kitchen from muddying the path below. (GSR/Tracy L. Barnett)