coyote

From the series: Shadow Lives USA

Migrants slip into the Rio Grande on their way to the USA. Pedro Mendoza, lower right corner, lives in Reynosa and has worked as a low level coyote (people who cross migrants into the States). He had passed more than 20 people at one time and sometimes had to save people who were drowning in the river or the cannals that migrants must pass over in that stretch of the border.

Jon Lowenstein, photographer