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Migrant shelters try to help traumatized assault survivors

A migrant from Venezuela applies makeup while camping outside the Sacred Heart Church in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

A migrant woman carries a child on her back while looking at the line of fellow migrants attempting to enter into El Paso, Texas after crossing the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

A migrant family climbs the northern bank of the Rio Grande after crossing from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in their attempt to enter into El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Migrants try to stay warm after spending the night on the southern bank of the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

A migrant child tries to warm her feet with what remains of a campfire at the southern bank of the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

A migrant carries food while crossing the Rio Grande into El Paso, Texas, from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

A migrant child cries to get the attention of his father while the family waits in the southern bank of the Rio Grande to cross into El Paso, Texas from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Dr. Brian Elmore, right, with the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, Texas, checks the bleeding nose of Honduran migrant Elvin Cruz, 5, as his mother, Diana Rosales, looks on at a government-run shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Dr. Krystal Lopez, right, with the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, Texas, provides medical attention to Honduran migrant Elvin Cruz, 5, as his mother Diana Rosales looks on at a government-run shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

A migrant mother and her child, from El Salvador, eat breakfast at a government-run shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Migrants are play near bunk beds inside a government-run shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Migrants walk around bunk beds inside a government-run shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Migrant children play a video game at a government-run shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

A migrant child sleeps at a government-run shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Migrants try to stay warm while camping outside the Sacred Heart Church in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. Growing numbers of migrants suffer violence that amounts to torture on their journeys. Doctors, social workers, clergy and shelter directors say they’re arriving at the US-Mexican border in desperate need for trauma-informed medical and mental health treatment. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Migrant shelters try to help traumatized assault survivors