Haitian migrants wade across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Texas, to Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, on Sept. 19 to avoid deportation to Haiti from the U.S. The U.S. is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico in a massive show of force that signals the beginning of what could be one of America’s swiftest, large-scale expulsions of migrants or refugees in decades. (Photo: Felix Marquez/AP)
With his hands clenched to his forehead attempting to keep a terrified toddler above water, a man in the photo does his best to maintain his balance amid a chin-high current while crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into Del Rio, Texas.
Elsewhere, in another photograph, agents donning cowboy hats and U.S. Custom and Border Patrol uniforms lash lariats, a rope used by horse riders reminiscent of slave overseer whips, at men carrying belongings in plastic bags as they attempt to run away.
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