The woman feeding migrants in this rural Guatemalan border outpost

Mexican authorities are dropping off hundreds of people every day in a rural border crossing with Guatemala, where most are lost and don’t have any food. One neighbor has taken it upon herself to feed them. The World’s Jorge Valencia tells her story.

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