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[??] Donde esta La Frontera? Millions try each year to slip into the United States through its "soft underbelly"--the U.S.-Mexico border. The solution: move the border south. (Cover Story).

IN THE EARLY MORNING OF DECEMBER 3, 2001, Kanu Okany Patel, a 35-year-old undocumented migrant from Gujarat, India, furtively made his way to the bathroom of a government-run detention center in Guatemala City, tied one end of a sturdy cord he'd secretly stripped from a window curtain around his neck, the other around a shower head, and hanged himself.

Patel died without ever knowing why he was in Guatemala. Several months earlier, he and dozens of other undocumented migrants from India were arrested in Mexico, accused of trying to enter the United States illegally. The migrants claimed that the Mexican police destroyed their personal documents and stole their money before ...

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