The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

An unaccompanied minor is a foreign national who is under 18 and arrives in a territory unaccompanied by a responsible adult. They are known as such until a legal guardian assumes responsibility for them.

Coyote is a colloquial Spanish word for someone who smuggles people across the border between the United States and Mexico.

La migra is a Spanish word for immigration authorities, which people from Central and South America use to refer to the United States Border Patrol. The United States Border Patrol is the United States Customs and Border Protection’s federal law enforcement agency within the Department of Homeland Security. Border Patrol agents police the United States borders by detecting and preventing illegal aliens, terrorists, and weapons from entering the United States.