A group of women from the Caravan of Central American Mothers of Missing Migrants are traversing Mexico in search of their children, who went missing as they attempted to cross the country to reach the United States. The International Crisis Group says tens of thousands of Central American migrants fleeing violence in their home countries go missing each year in Mexico. Caravan organizers say they’ve found at least 265 missing children over the 12 years they’ve been organizing the caravan. This is Anita Zelaya, from El Salvador, who has been looking for her son since 2002.

Anita Zelaya: “I am hopeful that I am going to find my son alive. There is so much injustice, and I, as a mother, am not OK with the fact that our children are massacred and victims of all that happens to them on the journey. I do not agree. We know that, sadly, Mexico, as the name of the caravan shows, is looking for life in paths of death. It is a journey of kidnappings, a route of muggings, a route of rape and, sadly, a route of extortions. Unfortunately, our children are still disappeared.”