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  • Migrants on bunks at a migrant refuge in Apizaco, Mexico. Most arrive at the refuge after three or four weeks travel from Honduras, much of it on foot and on the dangerous freight rail network known as La Bestia. Most arrive exhausted, many haven't eaten for days, many have suffered violence along the way, often at the hands of Mexican Police and criminal gangs.
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  • At a migrant refuge in Apizaco, Mexico, migrants play football as the train known as La Bestia or El Tren de la Muerte passes by on the tracks above.
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  • Migrants on bunks at a migrant refuge in Apizaco, Mexico. Most arrive at the refuge after three or four weeks travel from Honduras, much of it on foot and on the dangerous freight rail network known as La Bestia. Most arrive exhausted, many haven't eaten for days, many have suffered violence along the way, often at the hands of Mexican Police and criminal gangs.
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  • Santos Alemán, from Yoro, Honduras, at a migrant refuge in Apizaco, Mexico. Shot at Albergue de migrantes on 07 Jun 2021 by Sean Hawkey.
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  • Santos Alemán, from Yoro, Honduras, at a migrant refuge in Apizaco, Mexico. He worked for 20 years in a palm oil factory but reached retirement age. He can't survive without working and there are so few opportunities in Honduras he decided to migrate in search of employment. Shot at Albergue de migrantes on 07 Jun 2021 by Sean Hawkey.
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  • A group of migrant workers walk along railway tracks as they wait for a train heading north. Everyone in the group has worked in at least one trade, and they are hoping to find work in the US.
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  • Walter Amaya left Lempira, Honduras, three weeks ago. He has walked until his feet were full of blisters on his journey north towards the US and has spent up to three days without eating. He was chased by the migration police and fell off the train known as La Bestia, sustaining injuries to his back and legs. Others travelling with him said they had been assaulted by the police and beaten with rifle butts. He arrived at a refuge for migrants exhausted and in need of medical care.
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  • Benjamin is from La Libertad, El Salvador. He has worked in many jobs, all of them with low pay. His last job was looking after swimming pools and he carries documents to prove it, for potential customers. Here he is waiting to board the train known as La Bestia in Apizaco, Mexico, on his way to the US. Including elderly and young children, there are 14 people in his family, he hopes to provide for them better than he can do in El Salvador. He's never missed a day of work.
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  • Migrants on bunks at a migrant refuge in Apizaco, Mexico. Most arrive at the refuge after three or four weeks travel from Honduras, much of it on foot and on the dangerous freight rail network known as La Bestia. Most arrive exhausted, many haven't eaten for days, many have suffered violence along the way, often at the hands of Mexican Police and criminal gangs.
    Mexico_migration_Hawkey_20210607_135.jpg
  • Migrants on bunks at a migrant refuge in Apizaco, Mexico. Most arrive at the refuge after three or four weeks travel from Honduras, much of it on foot and on the dangerous freight rail network known as La Bestia. Most arrive exhausted, many haven't eaten for days, many have suffered violence along the way, often at the hands of Mexican Police and criminal gangs.
    Mexico_migration_Hawkey_20210607_138.jpg
  • A group of migrant workers sit on the sidings as a train passes. They are waiting for a train heading north. They are part of a group of 12 migrants who are all from the same neighbourhood in the same town in San Francisco Morazán, Honduras. Everyone in the group has worked in at least one trade, and they are hoping to find work in the US.
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  • José is from Honduras, he is travelling through Mexico to the US. Here is stands in front of a fast-moving freight train that he has been travelling on. In four weeks travel from Honduras, much of it on foot and on the dangerous freight rail network known as La Bestia he had experienced violence from Mexican migration police and had had to walk for days without eating.
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  • Honduran migrants walk the rail tracks their way to stow away between carriages on a freight train known to many as La Bestia. Apizaco, Mexico.
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  • A Honduran migrant, name withheld, sits on the rail tracks as he waits for the train known as La Bestia.
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  • Benjamin is from La Libertad, El Salvador. He has worked in many jobs, all of them with low pay. His last job was looking after swimming pools and he carries documents to prove it, for potential customers. Here he is waiting to board the train known as La Bestia in Apizaco, Mexico, on his way to the US. Including elderly and young children, there are 14 people in his family, he hopes to provide for them better than he can do in El Salvador. He's never missed a day of work.
    Mexico_migration_Hawkey_20210609_211.jpg
  • Benjamin is from La Libertad, El Salvador. He has worked in many jobs, all of them with low pay. His last job was looking after swimming pools and he carries documents to prove it, for potential customers. Here he is waiting to board the train known as La Bestia in Apizaco, Mexico, on his way to the US. Including elderly and young children, there are 14 people in his family, he hopes to provide for them better than he can do in El Salvador. He's never missed a day of work.
    Mexico_migration_Hawkey_20210608_197.jpg
  • A group of migrant workers sit on the sidings as a train passes. They are waiting for a train heading north. They are part of a group of 12 migrants who are all from the same neighbourhood in the same town in San Francisco Morazán, Honduras. Everyone in the group has worked in at least one trade, and they are hoping to find work in the US.
    Mexico_migration_Hawkey_20210608_180.jpg
  • A group of migrant workers  wait for a train heading north in Apizaco, Mexico. They have been trvelling for a month already and are about half way. Everyone in the group has worked in at least one trade, and they are hoping to find work in the US.
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  • A honduran migrant jumps onto 'La Bestia' a train that is part of a freight network through Mexico. If he is successful the journey will take him more than a month and the most who take the journey experience one or more of the many dangers on the journey, such as being kidnapped and extorted, robbed and beaten, raped, being victims of accidents on the train network, extreme dehydration and even death in the desert, drowning in the rivers to cross into the US.
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  • Migrants wait at a corner in Apizaco next to the railway as police patrol the rail lines, when the train arrives they run to avoid the migration police and jump into spaces between the freight cars.
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  • A Honduran migrant, waits for the train known as La Bestia in Apizaco, Mexico. Behind him, graffiti on the wall says 'Migrar no es delito'... migrating isn't a crime.
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  • Benjamin is from La Libertad, El Salvador. He has worked in many jobs, all of them with low pay. His last job was looking after swimming pools and he carries documents to prove it, to show potential customers. Here he reads a Bible as he is waiting to board the train known as La Bestia in Apizaco, Mexico. Including elderly and young children, there are 14 people in his family, he hopes to provide for them better than he can do in El Salvador. He's never missed a day of work.
    Mexico_migration_Hawkey_20210608_186.jpg
  • José is from Honduras, he is travelling through Mexico to the US. He is resting at a migrant refuge after four weeks travel from Honduras, much of it on foot and on the dangerous freight rail network known as La Bestia. Before arriving at the refuge he hadn't eaten for two days, and he had suffered violence along the way.
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  • An exhausted migrant rests on the rails of the freight train network known as La Bestia. Apizaco, Tlaxcala, Mexico.
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  • Two women migrants from Central America at the Apizaco migrant shelter, Tlaxcala, Mexico. The women had arrived on the train network called La Bestia. The wall has a mural painted by migrants with emblems from Honduras and Guatemala.
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