There are perhaps half a dozen shelter companies of this size working along the border.
In June, a helicopter pilot working along the border for the federal Department of Homeland Security reported seeing a jaguar in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson, officials said.
Police chiefs and officers across the country, particularly those who work along the border, recognize that you can't easily protect a community that fears and shuns you.
Already, the Independent Liberal Party has accused Mr. Ortega's party of scheming to pick up votes by denying identification cards to critics of the government, while granting them to Honduran citizens working along the border.
Working along the border between abstraction and representation on laptop and smaller-size canvases Mr. Arruda paints pictures of flat land, water and expansive, glowing skies minimally interrupted by low rocks and forested islands.
Abdulla, an 18-year-old smuggler working along the border with Lebanon, said that he had helped several foreigners — including two Saudis, two Americans and a German — cross into Syria to join a cousin's brigade in Homs and that they all saw the civil war in religious terms.
But a shutdown over a border wall would hurt those working along the border, along with many other government workers.
"There's often coordination, especially if [rebels are] working along the border or close to it," said Muhammad Talal Bazerbashi, commander of the Jeish al-Sham brigade, which fields units across Syria's northwest and is fighting on the north Aleppo front.
UNICEF is giving particular attention to children, like Nafissa and Masooma, who work along the border.
This might indicate that Spanish physicians working along the border are not returning to Spain at the same pace as those working in the biggest urban areas.
