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"AMERICA IMMIGRATION"

Undocumented Guatemalan immigrant Fidel Rodriguez looks out the window before landing on a deportation flight from Mesa, Arizona on June 24, 2011 in flight to Guatemala City, Guatemala. He said he had been living in Miami for 6 years, working in construction, before he was detained by immigration officials. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, ICE, repatriates thousands of undocumented Guatemalans monthly, many of whom are caught in the controversial "Secure Communities" data-sharing program which puts local police on the frontlines of national immigration enforcement. Guatemala ranks only second to Mexico in the number of illegal immigrants living in the United States.