‘Food Doesn’t Grow Here Anymore. That’s Why I Would Send My Son North.’

NENTÓN, Guatemala — To understand why President Trump’s new sanctions and other flailing to end Central American immigration aren’t working, step into the dark, melancholy hovel of Ana Jorge Jorge.

Ana Jorge Jorge holding a nephew. She sees no future for
 her only surviving son in their Guatemalan village.

She lives in Guatemala’s western highlands in the hillside village of Canquintic, near the town of Nentón, and she’s a widow because of the American dream.

Her husband, Mateo Gómez Tadeo, borrowed thousands of dollars and migrated north to the United States several years ago after his crops here failed. He found work in Alabama cutting flowers but then caught an infection and died, leaving hungry childrenback home and a huge debt hanging over the family.

Read the opinion piece from The New York Times by Nicholas Kristoff - “‘Food Doesn’t Grow Here Anymore. That’s Why I Would Send My Son North.’”