Migrants risk ‘Train of Death’ on journey to US-Mexico border

(NewsNation) — Migrants on the move from South and Central America risk it all when they climb aboard freight trains dubbed La Bestia and El Tren de la Muerte — or, in English: “The Beast" and “The Train of Death.”

The trains travel north to the U.S.-Mexico border carrying grains, industrial materials and thousands of people a year who are hoping for a better life in America.

These aren’t passenger trains with comfortable seats and large windows taking in the views of jungles. They’re dangerous freight trains wherein migrants often sleep in coils of metal or atop a bed of rocks. People have been killed under the trains’ crushing wheels; limbs have been lost as well.

José, a migrant from Read Entire Article