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An outdoor prayer service in a poor neighborhood in Reynosa, Mexico. Many migrants from Central and Southern Mexico make it to the Northern Mexican border with the United States with the hopes of making it to the ‘other side,' but instead get caught in a state of limbo. The average Mexican earns just $4 per day and has little or no safety net. Family is of utmost importance and the majority Catholic country takes its religion seriously. At this prayer service the parishioners were praying for a child who was seriously ill. ..During the past decade, millions of Mexican and Central American migrants have left their homes and families, faced death on the journey to the United States and lived under the specter of criminality once in this country. Despite these obstacles, these resilient immigrants are transforming American culture and posing fundamental questions of justice, citizenship, and labor to the country. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/jon lowenstein)