Tag: US-Mexico border

I Spent Years Train-Hopping ‘The Beast,’ Mexico’s Infamous Migrant Train

The blueish ink of dawn spilled into the horizon behind us. I was exhausted. We had just jumped onto a moving freight train in the mountain town of Orizaba and were slowly heading north through the peaks of the Sierra Madre. Alongside me, amid the haunting sound of steel, dozens of migrants from around the […]

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