Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. I'm Jane Chambers. Today we're in the

Central American country of Guatemala to hear about how temporary work permits to the United States

are turning some Guatemalan's lives around. One of the reasons for going was because my family

had a big dead here in Guatemala, and however

hard we try, we couldn't pay it off.

That's Sandra, Nui Baxas, who's just back from picking strawberries in the States with an

H-2A visa, which lets agricultural workers go there for a few months every year when they're needed.

It's a lot more

appealing way of getting there than for the estimated 724,000 Guatemalans living in the United States

illegally. Anything could happen to them. Sometimes they are lucky and make it there, but other times

there are accidents along the way.

I mean, no I'm much danger. And it can be financially crippling as well, as we'll find out from

one mother, Olga Romero, later in the program. Guatemala is the second largest country for

unauthorized immigrants in the United States after Mexico. So we'll hear how the H2A agricultural visa is changing

lives for the better for thousands of Guatemalans, but they're still subject to scams and find out

how the situation might change once President Donald Trump's in office. That's all coming up in Business Daily.

This is like that. That's all coming up in Business Daily. It's a cold, grey, windy day, and Sandra's showing me around the plot of land that she rents

in a place called Las Trez Cruces, high up in the hills, near a town where she lives with her family called Santiago, Saka de Pekis.

Local farmers grow lettuce, corn, beans and spinach for them to eat and sell.

Got some lemon trees, some clementines or mandarines, and orange trees.

Farm live earned around $10 a day.

If the harvest is good, we can get a bit more

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