Out of Sight
Hope sustains the migrants living in a camp in Matamoros, Mexico, but everything is tainted by despair.
Matamoros, Mexico, February 2020. All photos by Emily Kaplan. In February, I spent a week reporting in the migrant camp that has arisen in Matamoros, Mexico, just across the bridge from Brownsville, Texas. There, 2,500 people who have fled countries south of the border—Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and elsewhere—await their court dates, when they will make their cases for asylum.
