Train to El Norte - Wilmar, 7.Holding hands and saying a prayer as the train pulls out of the station, Selvin Allende, 22, of Honduras, left, sits with his girlfriend's son Wilmar David Castellan Zaldivar, 7. The first place the train can currently be boarded, migrants bound for the United States from all over Central America jump the freight town going towards the town of Ixtapec, Oaxaca, Mexico from the town of Arriaga, in Chiapas, Mexico on Saturday July 1, 2006. Poor migrants including...
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Train to El Norte - Wilmar, 7.Holding hands and saying a prayer as the train pulls out of the station, Selvin Allende, 22, of Honduras, left, sits with his girlfriend's son Wilmar David Castellan Zaldivar, 7. The first place the train can currently be boarded, migrants bound for the United States from all over Central America jump the freight town going towards the town of Ixtapec, Oaxaca, Mexico from the town of Arriaga, in Chiapas, Mexico on Saturday July 1, 2006. Poor migrants including women and children who don't have money to hire a coyote will often ride the train where they face dangers ranging from theft and rape to mutilation or death if they fall from the train.
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