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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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"Enrique's Dream Come True" Reunited, Enrique,17 and his mother Lourdes embrace in North Carolina. She left Honduras 7 years ago to work. Enrique survived 3 months on the rails through Mexico. -- Experts estimate 48,000 children enter the US from Central America and Mexico each year, illegally and without either of their parents. Most Central Americans seek a parent - 75% of them a mother.
 
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