Migrants left high and dry at Guatemala border after deportations from Mexico, U.S


  • World
  • Friday, 20 Aug 2021

A migrant woman from Honduras reacts while speaking on a mobile phone after she and other Central American migrants were expelled by U.S. and Mexican officials, in El Ceibo, Guatemala August 15, 2021. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria

EL CEIBO, Guatemala (Reuters) - When 25-year-old Salvadoran migrant Donovan Pedro stepped off a deportation bus at the El Ceibo border crossing that connects Mexico's southern border with Guatemala, the situation was familiar but the place was not.

Pedro had already made the trek to the U.S. border twice and was stopped by Mexican authorities, who both times sent him to other locations in Mexico.

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