Ashley is just one student amid the daily back and forth of people crossing between the U.S. Annually, more than $80 billion in international trade moves across this part of the border and into Texas. On average, more than 35,000 passenger vehicles make this northbound journey into El Paso each day, along with nearly 20,000 pedestrians. plans to add 450 miles of border wall this year, life between Mexico and the U.S. Most of these cross-border students, known as transfronterizos, attend elementary and high school. border each day for school, not just into Texas, but also California, New Mexico and Arizona. An estimated 40,000 children cross the U.S. A stream of children with backpacks, earbuds in, hands shoved in pockets, weave between traffic and funnel onto a pedestrian walkway.Įvery day, Ashley makes this crossing to get to high school. Vendors hawk newspapers and burritos to commuters bound for El Paso, who can wait three or four hours to cross the bridge each morning. A yellow mist settles across a motionless line of cars that seems to stretch from the horizon to the border checkpoint. Photo editing by Emily Kassie and Mallory BenedictĪlthough the days are still warm, dawn in the desert hovers around 30 degrees. This story was published in partnership with National Geographic. Photographer Sara Naomi Lewkowicz spent nearly a year with the cheerleaders of Bowie High School, chronicling their lives in El Paso and in Juárez.
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