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Judges' Special Recognition
Don bartletti
The Los Angeles Times
"Bound to el norte: Immigrant Stowaways on the Freight Trains of Mexico"  

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"the southern border" A raft captain carries his float out of the Suchiate River on the Guatemala/Mexico border. It's here in the Mexican state of Chiapas where Central American migrants become undocumented immigrants who are hunted by authorities and gangsters with equal ferocity.
 
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