"A day worked is a day paid," a day laborer in Lakewood, Colorado stated. But according to the Colorado Fiscal Institute (CFI), this is not the case for many Colorado workers.

Amid heightened notions of threat, a long history of transborder exchange challenges the language of crisis in the Mexico-Guatemala borderlands.

The Mexico–Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people. Contraband Corridor seeks to understand the border from the perspective of its long-term inhabitants.