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Don bartletti
The Los Angeles Times
"Bound to el norte: Immigrant Stowaways on the Freight Trains of Mexico"  

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"end of the line" 13-year-old David Velasquez peers out of a jail cell crowded with other train stowaways captured in Chiapas, Mexico. Next stop, a deportation to the Guatemala border. Most undocumented Central Americans make numerous attempts to ride freights to the US Border
 
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