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1,000 migrants a day made this tiny Guatemala town a smugglers paradise. The business has dried up.

Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 11 a.m.

b'Two Trump administration initiatives have driven down traffic, locals say: the \\u201cremain in Mexico\\u201d program requiring people to wait out their asylum cases south of the border, and the threat to slap tariffs on Mexico unless it cracked down on migrants crossing through it.'