Riding 'The Beast' Across Mexico To The U.S. Border : Parallels : NPR
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As many as a half-million undocumented immigrants, including more and more children, make dangerous 1,450-mile trips atop this network of freight trains each year.
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Aboard 'the Beast' Train on a Journey From Mexico to America - The New York Times
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Riding 'The Beast' Across Mexico To The U.S. Border
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Return of The Beast, the train that mutilates migrants' dreams, International
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Riding 'The Beast' With Mexico's Train-Hopping Migrants
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Riding 'the beast': Migrants board Mexico freight train to reach US
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Shocking new video shows hundreds of migrants cheering and waving the Venezuelan flag on top of The Beast cargo train to the US border after 11,000 are encountered crossing in just one
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