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Into the united states. >> gary tuchman joins us. where are you joining us from tonight and what did you see today? >> reporter: right now, anderson, we're in guatemala just a few hundred feet behind me is the boarder station in the nation of mexico. what we saw today is interesting. to get across the boarder from guatemala to mexico, they swim, walk through the river and pay the equivalent of $1.30. things get serious into mexico behind me. right away when you get there, there is a big mural that says coyote path and there is a picture of a coyote, they are referring to the human smugglers kn...

Hours away, right next to the legal crossing, here are people walking across this river to get from guatemala to mexico. they walk, they swim, they also take rafts to illegally cross and what is amazing is nobody at the boarder station, the mexican officials or the guatemala officials seem to mind. they just let them cross. it happens all day. we're going to give you a look, go under this bridge to the raft area and show you what happens. where you can legally cross, this is where you illegally cross under this boarder station. this is the raft and the inner tube, wood, we paid our 10, the equ...

Right above what happens to be a heavily used unofficial crossing, gary? >> reporter: anderson, i stand right now in mexico where it's absolutely pouring rain. a torrential storm right now and this is the boarder marker, mexico, guatemala. i take a step and i'm one time zone behind and in another country. this is el carmen guatemala. this is an official boarder station where it is pouring now and where it's done by the book, but if you want to cross guatemala into mexico not by the book, all you have to do is literally go below. many people legally cross between guatemala and mexico, this is t...

There are rafts of people trying to get across the boarder this is unlike the boarder of the united states where you have to be secretive. i want to give you a look to give you an idea how open this is. there are police here. there are police all over here and no one minds that people are going across the river from here in guatemala into temexico. you can see this family of three, a mother and father, they told me they are getting ready to go on the raft. the rafts are made with huge inner tubes and they go go into mexico. they are hoping also to get into the united states. this river is acti...