Posted on: January 24th, 2007
Filed Under: [ Immigration ] [ Tomás' Picks ]
Tags: border, Mexico, police
“Four Salvadoran men in jeans and T-shirts trudged along the railroad tracks under a hot sun, their steps carrying them steadily toward a fuzzy but seductive dream.
They had been in Mexico for only a few hours and already federal police officers had forced them to strip and had taken almost all their cash. They had 2,400 kilometers, or 1,500 miles, to go to reach the U.S. border, with no food or water and $9 each.
They intended to walk along the Chiapas coast for the first 400 kilometers, through a dozen towns where migrants are regularly robbed or raped. Then they planned to clamber aboard a freight train with hundreds of other immigrants for the trip north, a dangerous journey that has left hundreds of predecessors maimed after they fell under the wheels.”
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