Thomas Meredith Photograhy

javascripts: Twenty-one year old Rosa Ramirez, daughter of deceased miner Hugo Ramirez, sits on her bed in her family's home in Palau, Mexico, about 25 kilometers west of San Juan de Sabinas. Palau is a poor mining town where 22 of the 65 families who lost a relative in the mine explosion live. Rosa traveled from San Antonio, TX with her husband to be with her family. She is worried how she will return to her home in San Antonio because she is not a legal resident or citizen of the United States.