Mexican Trains Provide Free, Dangerous Ride to Border

Tuesday, 16 July 2013 | by Pat's Picks

There’s a crazy photo on the front page of the Washington Post this morning showing a train in Mexico, its roof covered with migrant workers from Central America. The Post says while illegal immigration to the United States is at its lowest point in four years, the number of Central Americans who brave Mexico’s train system for a ride to the border is at an all-time high. Neither the government nor railroad officials have been able to stop the masses of people who ride on top of trains, characterized as a “rolling gauntlet of rapes, kidnappings, homicides and maimings.”

SOURCE: Washington Post