Record numbers of arrests at the border of the United States and Mexico, the crisis in images

1Most of the people who crossed the border between the United States and Mexico were adults, as well as entire families.

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2Families walk along a dirt road after crossing the Rio Grande River into the United States from Mexico in Peñitas, Texas, on Friday, March 5.

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3A group of migrants waits along a dirt road to be transported after crossing the Rio Grande.

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4Migrants wait to be transported by the police after trying to reach the United States.

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5 Smugglers use rafts to transport migrant families and children across the Rio Grande.

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6María, four years old, is supported by her mother Loudi.

Both have traveled from El Salvador.

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7Gabriella, a Honduran migrant carries her six-year-old son as they walk to the US Adrees Latif REUTERS

8 The number of unaccompanied migrant minors detained at the southern border of the United States has tripled in the last two weeks, according to 'The New York Times'.

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9 Four-year-old Eduardo Josué, from Honduras, on the border between Mexico and the US Under US law, minors must be transferred within three days of their arrest.

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10Migrants seeking asylum in the United States suffered systematic rapes, kidnappings, extortion and other attacks, according to a report by the organization Human Rights Watch (HRW).

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11Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its report recommends that the Biden government allow asylum seekers whose cases were dismissed during Trump's term to start a new process in the United States.

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