December 18, 2018. Bellport NY. The woods where Jonathan and Edwin were attacked.
January 31, 2019. Yalambojoch, Guatemala. At the primary school which Felipe attended, over 200 students study each day in the center of town. Locals site grinding poverty and lack of opportunity as the principal reason that many residents every year, and in 2018 more than ever, make the journey north to search for work in the US. Among many who made that journey was 8 year old Felipe Gomez Alonzo, along with his father. Felipe died of Influenza B on Christmas Eve in ICE custody in New Mexico after making the journey with his father. His mother, grandmother and sister recently buried his remains after it was sent back to his home.
April 8, 2016. Tijuana, Mexico. A Mexican Federal Policeman is seen through the window of his car on a border tour of the wall near Tijuana.
April 16, 2018. New York City. Nanny, a woman who has been unable to get divorced from an abusive husband, poses for a portrait at the shelter where she currently lives in NYC.
October 7, 2018. Bean Station, Tennessee. Sunday school classes are taught in English and Spanish at St Patrick's church in Bean Station. After a major ICE raid at the Southeastern Provisions slaughterhouse in Bean Station, TN, the latino community in the surrounding area of Morristown and Grainger County has been deeply affected by fear, job loss, and deportations of family members or pending deportation proceedings.
April 9, 2016. Tijuana, Mexico. Leticia Orozco and Manuel Aguirre peer through the border at their children and grand children in Friendship Park in Tijuana.
April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. Natalie Martinez, 15, poses for a portrait near the soccer field she used to play on in her neighborhood of San Salvador. She had to quit soccer because she works nights and weekends now whenever she's not in school at a local mechanic shop. Several of her brothers are gang members and she says they live in constant fear that the family will be attacked by police. She says she fears the police more than any other gang.
October 7, 2018. Bean Station, Tennessee. Yahel, who's husband was deported to Mexico after the raid, plays with her son outside their trailer in Bean Station which she shares with her mother.
October 8, 2018. Morristown Tennessee. Kimberly poses for a photo at her kitchen table. After a major ICE raid at the Southeastern Provisions slaughterhouse in Bean Station, TN, the latino community in the surrounding area of Morristown and Grainger County has been deeply affected by fear, job loss, and deportations of family members or pending deportation proceedings.
October 6, 2018. Bean Station, Tennessee. On Saturday afternoon in Bean Station residents gathered together for their biannual yard sale day in which many homes put their possessions out for sale in a festive atmosphere.
October 7, 2018. Morristown, Tennessee. The congregation sings and prays at La Gran Comision in Morristown.
December 21, 2018. Bellport NY. The page of the Bellport High Yearbook which shows Emilio Sanchez Maldonaldos photo.
December 21, 2018. Bellport NY. The neighborhood around where Jonathan and Edwin lived and were attacked.
December 7, 2018. Huntington, NY. Marlon Ulloa, Alexander's brother, cleans up after giving a hair cut as news of a new Trump proposal to charge immigrants for asylum petitions flashes across the shop's tv screen.
Nov 16, 2018. La Libertad Honduras. Alexander watches TV in his basement room. 20 year Alexander Ulloa has just returned to Honduras, the country where he was born, after being twice deported from the US where his parents and brother now live in Long Island.
December 8, 2018. Huntington, NY. When Alexander was in ICE detention, his mother, believing he would be released, packed a plastic bag full of his favorite clothes, his house keys, and headphones, to be ready when he got out.
April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. The Mayor of San Salvador's security guard in Colonia Iberia.
January 30, 2019. La Mesilla, Guatemala. On the road between Nebaj and Huehuetenango, near the border of Guatemala and Mexico, a burning garbage dump on the side of the road is the home and work place to local children, many of them orphans, as well as a few adults who care for them, and a large flock of vultures.
February 1, 2019. Yalambojoch, Guatemala. The home in Yalambojoch where Felipe's family lives. Felipe's oldest sister Catarina makes tortillas for the family in the morning.
Nov 18, 2018. La Libertad Honduras.On the stage in an auditorium at the school in La Libertad, a banner reads "National Anthem."
October 23, 2017. Bellport NY. Jonathan's scars.
October 7, 2018. Bean Station, Tennessee. St Patrick's church in Bean Station.
September 7, 2018. Brentwood, LI. Students attend a football game on Friday afternoon.
October 6, 2018. Bean Station, Tennessee. Bubbling black liquid gives off a strong odor outside the slaughterhouse.
April 5, 2016. Tijuana, Mexico. A small set of binoculars in the brush near the border near Tijuana. The border wall between the US and Mexico is seen from the Mexican side on a tour with Mexican Federal Police.
April 2017, El Salvador, San Salvador. A Salvadoran police officer's weapon bears the name of his country.
December 18, 2018. Bellport NY. Noe's panic button.
October 7, 2018. Bean Station, Tennessee. Father Steve Pawelk gives the Sunday sermon in Spanish at St Patrick's church in Bean Station. At his left is is Alex, an alter boy whose mother Victoria was caught up in the raid and may be deported.
February 3, 2019. Huehuetenango, Guatemala. At the wake for Mateo Perez Marcos, 44, who died in a car accident in Tennessee. His remains were sent home to his wife and children in San Mateo Ixtatan, a remote town near the border of Mexico in the highlands of Huehuetenango.
February 5, 2019. Huehuetenango, Guatemala. In the morning, Eva Maria washes her families clothing, before heading the comedor where she prepares orders for delivery around the town while helping her sons do their homework. Then she changes into formal attire, replete with a ceremonial baton that indicates her place in public office, before heading out for meetings at the Mayor's office for the afternoon as her sons head to school.
