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Luis Figueroa

A migrant traveling to the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico in 2006. This fiscal year, US officials have detained more than 52,000 unaccompanied minors and 39,000 women with children along the US-Mexico border.

These two Guatemalans say they had little choice but to head north

Global Politics

What’s the outlook for two Guatemalans who’ve recently crossed the US-Mexico border? They say they’re stuck in the middle, caught between a country that won’t let them stay and a country that gives them no future.What’s the outlook for two Guatemalans who’ve recently crossed the US-Mexico border? They say they’re stuck in the middle, caught between a country that won’t let them stay and a country that gives them no future.