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Life After Deportation - Part II

Marvin Gomez Guatemala is one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere. And the people who live there face a constant question. Should I risk leaving? Many already have...

About a million Guatemalans live in the United States. And last year, the U-S government captured and sent home more than 31-thousand.

In part two of our series“Life After Deportation”, KJZZ's Peter O'Dowd reports from one Guatemalan town where the question of leaving has a way of hanging in the air.

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