Mexican border serves as gateway to U.S. - Part of the landscape for more than a century, some migrants stop if they find work; others continue on their journey north

Migrants have been part of the Chiapas landscape for more than a century. Some stay to legally work on local fields; others flee north from the poverty or violence of their homelands. Lopez Cadenas remembers, as a child, when they regularly passed through his family’s farm en route to somewhere else.

Guatemala’s border with southern Mexico is 600 miles, or about one-third the length of Mexico’s northern border with the United States. It is an unwieldy, porous and forested border that has long served as an illegal
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gateway for tens of thousands of Central Americans each year, as well as migrants from other countries and continents trying to find a back route into the United States.”*

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