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Don bartletti
The Los Angeles Times

"Bound to el norte: Immigrant Stowaways on the Freight Trains of Mexico"  




"soaring" "the pilgrim train" Mexican authorities call freights crowded with migrants "El Tren Peregrino" or "The Pilgrim Train". Treated as law-breaking foreigners in Mexico, undocumented Central Americans have made cargo trains a major migratory route north to the U.S. border.
 
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