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Americans in Mexico to Follow Undocumented Spouses

October 6, 2018

More and more Americans are leaving the United States to live in Mexico. They’re not choosing to go; they’re following their undocumented spouses facing deportation. Matter of Fact correspondent Leone Lakhani reports from Merida, Mexico where a community of American women are making it work. 

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