Why are so many Guatemalans being apprehended at the border?

The World

 A recent Univision multimedia project looks at why the number of Guatemalans detained at the US border doubled in fiscal year 2018. Video journalist Andrea Patiño Contreras traveled with colleagues to migrants’ Guatemalan hometowns and tells Host Marco Werman what she learned.

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