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Immigration Between Mexico and Guatemala

26 JULY 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: A man crippled while he tried to hop a freight train to get to the US rests in a shelter in Tapachula, Mexico. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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© Jack Kurtz
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26 JULY 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: A man crippled while he tried to hop a freight train to get to the US rests in a shelter in Tapachula, Mexico. Tapachula is center of the smuggling industry between Mexico and Guatemala. Consumer goods are smuggled south to Guatemala (to avoid paying Guatemalan import duties) and people are smuggled north into Mexico. Most of the people coming north are hoping to eventually get to the United States. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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