A 16-year-old Honduran immigrant, having both his legs amputated by a train, lies on the bed in a shelter in Tapachula, Mexico.
A 16-year-old Honduran immigrant, having both his legs amputated by a train during an attempt to get illegally to the United States, lies on the bed in a refugee shelter in Tapachula, Mexico, 21 May 2011. Between 2010 and 2015, the US and Mexico have apprehended almost 1 million illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. While the economic reasons remain the most frequent motivation for people from Central America to illegally immigrate to the US, thousands of Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Hondurans, many of them minors, seek asylum in the US due to the thriving crime and gang-related violence in their region (known as the Northern Triangle). Taking an exhausting and risky journey, riding thousands of miles atop the cargo trains, facing a physical danger and extortion from the organized crime groups that control migrant routes, the “undocumented” still flee to the US, looking for their American dream.
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Location: Tapachula, Mexico
Photo credit: © Jan Sochor / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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