‘We need help’: Chicago medical students are serving the migrants Texas is sending by bus

Migrants camp outside the first district police station in Chicago on 7 October. Photograph: Erin Hooley/AP

By the time eight-year-old Miguel was put on a bus for a 1,500-mile trip across the US, his leg was badly infected from a cut from barbed wire at the US-Mexico border.

On another bus, a woman who had started bleeding in federal detention in Texas had a miscarriage in the vehicle’s tiny bathroom.