Editor's note: The migrants in this story asked to be identified only by their first names or initials because they are undocumented and fear arrest and deportation.

SAN ANTONIO - Jossman had told himself many times that the day a cop eventually pulled him over, he wouldn't run.

Before wading the Rio Grande and surrendering to the Border Patrol in Eagle Pass, Jossman had been a clown, a knife thrower, a magician, a lion tamer, a tiger tamer, a motorcyclist inside a globe.