This 17-year-old Honduran boy is an example of the phenomenon known as the surge; he was travelling alone, had no money and knew no one in the USA. He was in Tenosique. He said his cousin showed up drunk and hacked off his arm because his sister had killed the cousin's dog. Rampant violence, endemic poverty, and aggressive recruiting of children by gangs are among the conditions causing the surge. photograph by Michelle Frankfurter