5316 x 3544 px | 45 x 30 cm | 17,7 x 11,8 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
6. November 2014
Ort:
Lechería, Mexico City, Mexico
Weitere Informationen:
Central American immigrants, seen behind the cross grave marker, wait near the railroad track to climb up the Kansas City Southern cargo train passing through Lechería station, in the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico, 6 November, 2014. 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.
