Before 14-year-old Brian Duran set out from central Honduras in mid-April, he heard that child migrants who turned themselves in to the U.S. Border Patrol were being cared for and not deported.

He knew that a couple of friends who left before he did had given themselves up after crossing and been reunited with family in the U.S. Sitting inside the walled compound of a migrant shelter in the Mexican border city of Reynosa across the Rio Grande from Texas, Brian wonders if that is still the case as he seeks a way to make his own crossing.