Melaba Salazar-Lucio and Juan David Liendo-Lucio deliver gifts, food, and organized activities to children in the Matamoros camp. (Photo: Maranie R. Staab/VICE News)
Miguel spends several hours each day and evening offering items for sale to people walking and driving from Mexico to the United States. "I tried to get better work but it is very difficult here." (Photo: Maranie R. Staab/VICE News)
Mikaila, 37, and her son Daniel, 7, traveled alone from Honduras and arrived in the camp last week. "I don't know what I will do if they don't let me cross. I cannot go back." (Photo: Maranie R. Staab/VICE News)
Imelda, age 8, washes her clothes in the Rio Grande River. She has not been able to attend school for the last 7 months as her family waits to have their asylum claim processed. Asked what she wants for her future Imelda responded,"I want to be a teacher someday." (Photo: Maranie R. Staab)
The days in the Matamoros camp are monotonous and the nights are in a tent shared with others, often damp and quickly becoming unable to keep out the cold. Griselda is 7 and spends most afternoons coloring. She and her mother, father and younger brother have been waiting since September for their first asylum hearing. (Photo: Maranie R. Staab/VICE News)
Following their visit with Santa a projector played a Spanish Christmas movie for a group of fifty young children. The side of a large shipping container that doubles as a medical clinic during the day served as the screen. (Photo: Maranie R. Staab)
By 10 p.m. on Christmas Eve families returned to their respective tents. Some used the remaining battery life in their holiday necklaces to light a few more minutes together before darkness fell. (Photo: Maranie R. Staab/VICE News)
The Matamoros tent camp is currently home to 2,500 asylum seekers. Following the Trump administration's Migrant Protection Protocol, asylum-seekers from Spanish-speaking countries must remain in Mexico while their claims are processed. (Photo: Maranie R. Staab/VICE News)