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While NBC Nightly News was worried about President Trump slapping tariffs on Mexican goods because of their ineffectiveness in stemming the flow of migrants through their country and to the U.S., ABC’s World News Tonight went on a ride-along with Guatemala police in the “first of its kind raid on the human smugglers”.
With the on-screen headline reading “on the front lines of human smuggling crisis”, correspondent Matt Gutman set the scene. “In the predawn darkness, nearly 200 Guatemalan cops got their orders, loaded up, and fanned out,” he said. “Every one of these police units, it has its own prosecutor who’s riding along.”
According to Gutman, “more migrants make the journey from Guatemala than any other nation” and government statistics showed that 110,000 total illegal border crossers were apprehended in April.
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