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Eliana, 22, a migrant from Venezuela, holds her three-year-old daughter Chrismarlees as she shouts towards an Army National Guard soldier after he halts her from breaching a razor wire-laden fence along the bank of the Rio Grande river in El Paso, #Texas, U.S., March 26, 2024. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

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The woman caught - literally - in rolls of razor wire at the U.S.-Mexican border in this photo gave her name as Eliana, a 22-year-old Venezuelan who was attempting to cross with her two young daughters into Texas in March. Photographer Adrees Latif met her as she hid with some migrants while others cut a hole in the fence. “After weeks of traveling north from her home country of Venezuela, the opportunity she awaited was only moments away,” said Latif. “Her aim was to make a 100-meter dash past the razor-wire fence, without being stopped by Army soldiers and state troopers, towards the border wall, where she would be allowed to surrender to immigration officials.” Once a space was cleared, the migrants began running through. Eliana’s six-year-old daughter Ariana crossed with another Venezuelan migrant. Right behind her was Eliana, carrying three-year-old Chrismarlees. Then she got snagged on the wire. At the moment of the photo, she is trying to push through, but a U.S. National Guard soldier has arrived and is telling the migrants to return. Eliana backed away, said Latif. Nursing cuts from the wire, she huddled with the remaining migrants - and said she would seek to return. Reuters was unable to determine what happened to Eliana or her daughters after the incident. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency declined to comment.
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