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The United States is set to overhaul how it handles illegal migrants after a young boy and girl, both from Guatemala, died while in US custody in December.

Their deaths coincided with a spike in the number of young migrant families apprehended at the border. Many of them come from Guatemala.

To find out what is driving young families to the US, the 大象传媒's Patricia Sulbar谩n went back to the village of one of those children, Felipe Gomez Alonzo.