The evening news in Mexico regularly features footage of a ramshackle freight train known as La Bestia (The Beast) making its way across the country bearing a cargo of illegal immigrants trying to reach the United States’s southern border. One can see hundreds of men, women and children perched on the roof, crammed between the […]
Month: July 2014
Migrants Ride a ‘Train of Death’ to Get to America & We’re Ignoring the Root of the Problem
The evening news in Mexico regularly features footage of a ramshackle freight train known as La Bestia (The Beast) making its way across the country bearing a cargo of illegal immigrants trying to reach the United States’s southern border. One can see hundreds of men, women and children perched on the roof, crammed between the […]