The Hotel for the Deported Migrants stands less than two blocks from the US border. When the hotel has electricity it houses hundreds of Mexican and Central American migrants who have been deported from the United States. On the day I visited, with temperatures outside nearing 120 degrees fahrenheit, the hotel was mostly vacant because. The conditions were unbearable for most deportees who chose to sleep on the streets of Mexicali instead of suffering the heat inside. The migrants, many of them from Central America, are caught in limbo, some spending decades working in the United States, only to be deported for oftentimes minor offenses. Some migrate back home, and others wait for another opportunity to cross again.