41,000 Guatemalans deported so far in 2013

The US recently surpassed last year's record number of deportations to Guatemalans when three planes landed at Aurora airport in Guatemala City. As of mid-October, the US had deported 40,938 undocumented individuals to Guatemala. In all of 2012, they had "only" deported 40,647.

Here's the story of one dangerous dairy farmer who is helping the US race towards 50k deportations of Guatemalans.

Lopez-Juarez only reached the third grade of school in Guatemala and had few opportunities to find work, Randi Bianco said. His parents and five siblings work as field hands.

In Cayuga County, Lopez-Juarez worked at his cousin's dairy farm in Auburn, documents say. That gave him enough money to send $500 a month to his family in Guatemala and $150 a month in child support for his two teenage daughters in California.

Now one would have to know about his misdemeanor battery charge from 1998, but this doesn't look like an example of immigration authorities focusing on keeping America safe.

The good news appears to be that the US won't increase the number of Guatemalans deported in 2014. According to a Guatemalan immigration officials, the US just doesn't have enough resources to increase deportations any faster than it is doing today.