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

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"hideout" Burning with fever, Ermis Galiano, 15 holds his throbbing head after an attack by street thugs. The bad luck forced he and his Honduran schoolmate Edin into this culvert hideout under a Nuevo Laredo, Mexico highway. Another boy lights a fire inside the pipe. They rode 1500 miles through Mexico on the trains to reach the border city. Ermis knows his mother is somewhere in the US
 
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