Migrants risk life and limb to reach the US on train known as the Beast | World | The Guardian
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Crammed into a patch of shade outside their dormitory in a migrant shelter in southern Mexico, a small group of women from Honduras and El Salvador spent much of a recent sweltering afternoon slipping into languid snoozes punctuated by bouts of bawdy banter. It was, they said, the way they gathered strength despite the knowledge that their flight from extreme street gang violence and desperate poverty in their own countries is not only far from over, but looking ever more difficult to complete.
“We can’t go back and now we can’t go forward either,” said Natalia, a Honduran in her 20s, as the conversation turned serious and the smiles faded away. “And every day that passes means more suffering and danger for the families we left behind.”