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migrant
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Enrique's Journey
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In order to give a vivid, nuanced account, I knew I would have to travel with child migrants through Mexico on top of freight trains.†
Chpt Prol.

migrants = those who moves from one place to another
The places where migrants encounter the greatest cruelty?†
Chpt Prol.
On his train rides through Mexico, he told me, he had witnessed five separate incidents where migrants had been mutilated by the train.†
Chpt Prol.
It also helped me convince an armed Mexican migrant rights group, Grupo Beta, to accompany me on the trains through the most dangerous leg of the journey, the Mexican state of Chiapas.†
Chpt Prol.

migrant = one who moves from one place to another
In May 2000, I scoped out a dozen shelters and churches in Mexico along the 2,000-mile-long U.S. border that help migrants, including minors.†
Chpt Prol.

migrants = those who moves from one place to another
I traveled on trains with other migrant children going to find their mothers, including a twelve-year-old boy in search of his mother, who had left for San Diego when he was one year old.†
Chpt Prol.

migrant = one who moves from one place to another
From Tegucigalpa through Mexico, I interviewed dozens of migrants and other experts — medical workers, priests, nuns, police officers.†
Chpt Prol.

migrants = those who moves from one place to another
Train engineers have described incidents where migrants have been crushed as trains derail and cars tip over.†
Chpt Prol.
As I passed through the town of Encinar, Veracruz, I was riding between two hoppers with four other migrants.†
Chpt Prol.
A teenage boy emerged from a railside food store to throw a roll of crackers to migrants on the train.†
Chpt Prol.
A teenage migrant standing next to me was hungry.†
Chpt Prol.

migrant = one who moves from one place to another
When the boy threw the roll toward the migrant beside me, it bounced off the train.†
Chpt Prol.
As the migrant jumped off the hopper to run back for the crackers, he stumbled and fell backward.†
Chpt Prol.
It is thick with bandits who target migrants.†
Chpt Prol.

migrants = those who moves from one place to another
Suddenly we were on a high-speed chase on a two-lane road, trying to reach three bandits in a red Jeep Cherokee who had robbed a group of migrants and driven off with one of them, a twenty-two-year-old Honduran woman.†
Chpt Prol.
Farther north, human rights activist Raymundo Ramos Vasquez gave me a tour of the most isolated spots along the Rio Grande, places where migrants cross.†
Chpt Prol.
We stumbled across a migrant preparing to swim north.†
Chpt Prol.

migrant = one who moves from one place to another
As the migrant described the abuse, two police officers walked down the dirt path toward us.†
Chpt Prol.
Although I often felt exhausted and miserable, I knew I was experiencing only an iota of what migrant children go through.†
Chpt Prol.
I have written about migrants, on and off, for two decades.†
Chpt Prol.

migrants = those who moves from one place to another
Until my journey with migrant children, I had no true understanding of what people are willing to do to get here.†
Chpt Prol.

migrant = one who moves from one place to another
The migrants I spent time with also gave me an invaluable gift.†
Chpt Prol.

migrants = those who moves from one place to another
Latina migrants ultimately pay a steep price for coming to the United States.†
Chpt Prol.
A week after mailing in the last payments, several migrants go back to her office to see how things are going.†
Chpt 1
The papers the migrants were shown were filled-out applications, nothing more.†
Chpt 1
The smugglers put twenty-four migrants into an overloaded boat in Mexico, he says.†
Chpt 1
Government-run foster homes in Mexico get migrant children whom authorities find abandoned in airports and bus stations and on the streets.†
Chpt 1

migrant = one who moves from one place to another
He asks each of the other migrants to help him get back to his smuggler in Tepic.†
Chpt 1

migrants = those who moves from one place to another
He has cared for injured migrants before.†
Chpt 2
The migrants most badly mangled by the train run up bills of $1,000 to $1,500 each when they end up at a public hospital one and a half hours away.†
Chpt 2
Looking at the small, soft-spoken boy lying on the bench, he reminds himself that a live migrant is better than a dead one.†
Chpt 2

migrant = one who moves from one place to another
All the while, people visiting the graves of their loved ones would complain about the smell of another rotting migrant.†
Chpt 2
For a moment, the officer and the mayor's driver discuss the new dead migrant.†
Chpt 2
The policeman and a partner had seen Enrique and four other migrants drying off after bathing in a river five miles to the south.†
Chpt 2

migrants = those who moves from one place to another
One of the migrants bolted.†
Chpt 2
The officers put the migrants in the back of their truck.†
Chpt 2
Enrique was relieved that one of the fellow migrants had the money and handed it over.†
Chpt 2
The judicial police, he says, routinely stop trains to rob and beat migrants.†
Chpt 2
Four of five migrants who arrive at the Albergue Belen shelter in Tapachula have already been robbed, beaten, or extorted by police, says the shelter priest, Flor Maraa Rigoni.†
Chpt 2
At the Tapachula train station, fights break out between municipal and state police officers over who gets to rob a group of migrants.†
Chpt 2
Migrants describe being locked up by police officers until a relative in the United States can wire the kidnapper's fee and buy their freedom.†
Chpt 2
For immigration agents, squeezing cash from migrants is central to day-to-day operations, helping underpaid agents buy big houses and nice cars.†
Chpt 2
At highway checkpoints, agents charge smugglers $50 to $200 per migrant to pass through.†
Chpt 2

migrant = one who moves from one place to another
They remember traveling thirty-one days and about a thousand miles through Guatemala into the state of Veracruz in central Mexico, where la migra captured them on top of a train and sent them back to Guatemala on what migrants call El Bus de Lagrimas, the Bus of Tears.†
Chpt 2

migrants = those who moves from one place to another
Police stopped the train near the town of Tonala to hunt for migrants, and Enrique had to jump off.†
Chpt 2
The fourth: After a day and twelve miles, police caught him sleeping on top of a mausoleum in a graveyard near the depot in Tapachula, Mexico, known as the place where a migrant woman had been raped and, two years before that, another had been raped and stoned to death.†
Chpt 2

migrant = one who moves from one place to another
He has slept on the ground; in a sewage culvert, curled up with other migrants; on top of gravestones.†
Chpt 2

migrants = those who moves from one place to another
Migrants usually head to the border town of Tecun Uman to cross the river.†
Chpt 2
It teems with violence, prostitutes, and destitute migrants.†
Chpt 2
A platoon of large passenger tricycles wheels migrants from the bus stop to the riverbank, swerving along the main, rutted, dirt road to avoid pigs and trash burning in the middle of the street.†
Chpt 2

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(1) (migrant)
a person (or animal) that moves from one place to another -- sometimes seasonally -- sometimes for work
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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