Follow along on one migrant family’s journey on La Bestia: a notorious freight train that winds its way through Mexico towards the United States.
Carlos Onan Galo Perez, standing with rope, and members of his family ride atop the freight train dubbed La Bestia.
Now Mexican immigration agents and federal police staff checkpoints along the highways, and truckers and other motorists face fines if they give lifts to migrants. In April and May, Mexico detained a total of 43,258 foreigners, more than double the number during the same period last year. Galo and his wife, Lidis Reconco, knew how difficult it could be to reach the United States, 1,000 miles from here.
U.S. laws restricting child detention have helped fuel a surge in asylum-seeking families converging on the U.S.-Mexico border — to the ire of the Trump administration, whose officials have assailed the practice of bringing children as “shields” to get released in U.S. territory. They left Honduras in early April, soon arriving at Mexico’s border with Guatemala, where they waited a month until the three children — Carlos, Sheri and Shirli, ages 15, 10 and 8 — received visitor cards allowing them to travel in southern Mexico, but not beyond. Both parents already had temporary legal papers for Mexico —In early May, the family set out by bus for this sun-scorched town, a key terminus for La Bestia.
That evening, the Central Americans, numbering about 100 or so, crashed in the central plaza of Arriaga, across the street from the But then railroad security men decked out in black arrived and chased them away. They sealed the boxcars, warning of the dangers of suffocation should the doors slam shut.is renowned for sharp curves and sudden braking, capable of sending rooftop passengers flying onto the rails. Low-lying branches can suddenly sweep riders into the abyss. There is no relief from the sun, rain or evening chill.
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