on the raft with him. is this a fun job? >> yeah, if you. >> reporter: facile? easy? >> fun job. >> reporter: leave guatemala, he takes them to mexico. if they succeed, they end up in the united states. if you do this in the rio grande of texas, you get in trouble. here with paluco, you can do it in front of everybody. paluco is now taking us into mexico. but like most of the people on this river, we're going to head back into guatemala and spend the next couple of hours watching people continue to cross this river heading north. gary tuchman, cnn. >> so incredible. i just watched gary. not even an hour ago doing a live shot for cnn and actually watching as one of these rafts just took off. and they waved and said yeah, we're headed to america. it was a family. so what's remarkable is the actual process. you've seen it from the beginning, from the shores of guatemala, across the river into mexico and up to the united states. when they get here. have you been inside the actual