Porous Southern Border Does Little to Stop Deported Immigrants From Trying Again

Border Patrol agents apprehend five illegal aliens from Mexico after they tried to evade capture after crossing the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas, on April 18, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala—Boris, who declined to give his last name, was waiting by the Guatemala–Mexico border for his mother to wire some money from California.

He had four quetzales on him (54 cents), and the extra money wouldn’t arrive until the next morning, so he was stuck without the 10 quetzale ($1.35) fare across the Suchiate River to Mexico.