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Daniel, from Honduras (left) wants to be a mechanic in NJ. Richard from Venezuela (right) is a pipe fitter who lost his middle finger in an accident. Both are seeking menial labor in the U.S. (All photos by Sergio Flores for The Free Press)
Peter Savodnik on the crisis nobody wants to solve.
By Peter Savodnik
04.03.24 — U.S. Politics
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MATAMOROS, MEXICO — On a recent Wednesday, Daniel Cortez, a 45-year-old mechanic from Honduras, and Richard Betancourt, a 46-year-old pipe fitter from Venezuela, were holding court at the migrants camp here on the northernmost edge of Mexico.

They sat in bridge chairs under a tarp and a drizzly, gray-white sky. Beyond the tents, past the field strewn wit…

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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