Kevin persuaded his girlfriend, Yosselyn Guerrero, to leave Tapachula for Mexico City with a simple promise: a furnished room awaited them in the Mexican capital. They would finally have a bed — no more sleeping on the floor of a borrowed house. The 30‑year‑old Salvadoran woman hesitated. On the border she already had a job in a small restaurant, and heading farther north meant putting even more distance between herself and her family in Santa Ana, who kept begging her to come home. In the end, Kevin’s plan prevailed. He chose the coyotes and the route, which included a stretch by boat across the ocean.

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