CNN Profiles - Catherine E. Shoichet - Senior Writer

TOPSHOT - Mexican National Guard members prevent Central American migrants from crossing the Rio Bravo, in Ciudad Juarez, State of Chihuahua, on June 21, 2019. - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador suggested Friday he and US counterpart Donald Trump should hold their first meeting in September to review progress on the countries' recent migration deal. (Photo by HERIKA MARTINEZ / AFP) (Photo credit should read HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

The other photo that shows what's happening now at the border

Another photo of a parent and child near the river that divides the United States and Mexico has sparked an outcry -- online and in halls of power.

Rosa Ramirez sobs as she shows journalists toys that belonged to her nearly 2-year-old granddaughter Valeria in her home in San Martin, El Salvador, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. The drowned bodies of Ramirez's son, 25-year-old Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, and his daughter were located Monday morning on the banks of the Rio Grande, a day after the pair were swept away by the current when the young family tried to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. Her daughter-in-law Tania Vanessa Avalos, 21, survived. (AP Photo/Antonio Valladares)

A father and daughter drowned crossing the Rio Grande. Here's how their journey began

More than 1,000 miles from the river bank where the bodies of her son and granddaughter washed ashore, Rosa Ramírez wept.

Migrants listen to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials after crossing illegally into the United States to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, U.S., in this picture taken from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, April 5, 2019. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

Why Border Patrol isn't accepting donations for kids in custody

Rep. Terry Canales heard the reports of children suffering in squalid conditions at Customs and Border Protection facilities and knew what he had to do.

A slipper made of carpet fabric, used to wrap migrants shoes to hide foot tracks, lays next to the border fence outside Lukeville, Arizona, on February 16, 2017, on the US/Mexico border.
Attention Editors: This image is part of an ongoing AFP photo project documenting the life on the two sides of the US/Mexico border simultaneously by two photographers traveling for ten days from California to Texas on the US side and from Baja California to Tamaulipas on the Mexican side between February 13 and 22, 2017. You can find all the images with the keyword : BORDERPROJECT2017 on our wire and on www.afpforum.com / AFP / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

The short life and long journey of the 6-year-old girl from India who died near the US-Mexico border

Gurupreet Kaur crossed the US-Mexico border shortly before her 7th birthday.

A US Border Patrol vehicle drives along a section of border fence near the US-Mexico border on June 12, 2019, in Hidalgo, Texas. (Photo by Loren ELLIOTT / AFP) (Photo credit should read LOREN ELLIOTT/AFP/Getty Images)

Lack of soap, filthy onesies and too few beds have created a 'health crisis' at border detention facilities, monitors warn

A team of doctors, lawyers and advocates are warning of what they say are major health and hygiene problems at several US Customs and Border Protection facilities in Texas.

GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA - FEBRUARY 09: Guatemalan immigrants deported from the United States arrive on a ICE deportation flight on February 9, 2017 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The charter jet, carrying 135 deportees, arrived from Texas, where U.S. border agents catch the largest number illigal immigrants crossing into the United States, many of them from Central America. U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to vastly increase the number of deportations. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Why mass deportations haven't happened under Trump

It's an alarm immigrant rights groups have been sounding since the day President Trump took office.

View of the metal fence along the border in Sonoyta, Sonora state, northern Mexico, between the Altar desert in Mexico and the Arizona desert in the United States, on March 27, 2017.
Threatened species like the Sonoran pronghorn or desert bighorn sheep freely cross the border between Mexico and the United States in protected biospheres, but the construction of US President Donald Trump's wall will block their movement in these desert valleys and could drive them to extinction. / AFP PHOTO / PEDRO PARDO (Photo credit should read PEDRO PARDO/AFP/Getty Images)

A 6-year-old from India died after crossing the US-Mexico border. More Indians are making that journey

On the day she died, the little girl was thousands of miles away from the country where she was born.

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