A Guatemalan town remakes itself in Indiana

"We’ve become a destination," says the mayor of a small Indiana town transformed by migration.

All the participants in a September basketball tournament in Seymour, Indiana, are members of the local Chuj community, Indigenous migrants from Guatemala. Jamie Vicente, Filipe Miguel, and Diego Martin play for Los Bulls from Rantoul, Illinois.

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