Train to El Norte - As the train pulls out into the darkening night, a migrant from Colombia stands on the top of a car. He is one of about 300 migrants bound for the United States from Central America to have jumped the freight train going toward 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...
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Train to El Norte - As the train pulls out into the darkening night, a migrant from Colombia stands on the top of a car. He is one of about 300 migrants bound for the United States from Central America to have jumped the freight train going toward 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. Arriaga is the first place the train can be boarded, and on the walk from the border with Guatemala many have already been robbed multiple times.
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