Mayra stepped from her hiding place in the dense brush on the banks of the Rio Grande, the river that marks the border between the U.S. and Mexico, as the sun came up. The 17-year-old migrant from Guatemala carried her one-year-old son on her back reut.rs/2NygXVc 1/5 
They had crossed the river hours earlier in the dark on small rafts with a group of about 70 migrants - mostly Guatemalan and Honduran women with young children and about 25 teenagers traveling alone. Mayra hoped that as a teen mother she would be allowed to stay in the U.S. 2/5
The group is among thousands of migrants who have been crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in recent weeks, creating a political and humanitarian challenge for the new Biden administration as it tries to house the arriving migrants in government facilities during the pandemic 3/5
The number of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border this year is on pace to be the highest in 20 years, one of U.S. President Joe Biden’s top officials said this week 4/5
Word is spreading in Central America that minors and mothers of young children can enter the country, the migrants said, prompting them to take the weeks-long journey in buses, on foot, and in the back of trucks to arrive at the Rio Grande reut.rs/3tpNZWO by @dvdwyer 5/5
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