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  • Migrants wait at a corner in Apizaco next to the railway as police patrol the rail lines, when the train arrives they run to avoid the migration police and jump into spaces between the freight cars.
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  • A group of migrant workers in Apizalco, Mexico walk along railway tracks as they wait for a train heading north to the US.
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  • A group of migrant workers walk along railway tracks as they wait for a train heading north. Everyone in the group has worked in at least one trade, and they are hoping to find work in the US.
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  • Portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at a railway station in North Korea.
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  • A Honduran migrant, name withheld, sits on the rail tracks as he waits for the train known as La Bestia.
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  • A Honduran migrant stands between carriages of a freight train on the Mexican rail network known as La Bestia or El Tren de la Muerte.
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  • Honduran migrants resting outside the migrant refuge in Apizaco, Mexico.
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  • A honduran migrant jumps onto 'La Bestia' a train that is part of a freight network through Mexico. If he is successful the journey will take him more than a month and the most who take the journey experience one or more of the many dangers on the journey, such as being kidnapped and extorted, robbed and beaten, raped, being victims of accidents on the train network, extreme dehydration and even death in the desert, drowning in the rivers to cross into the US.
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  • Benjamin is from La Libertad, El Salvador. He has worked in many jobs, all of them with low pay. His last job was looking after swimming pools and he carries documents to prove it, for potential customers. Here he is waiting to board the train known as La Bestia in Apizaco, Mexico, on his way to the US. Including elderly and young children, there are 14 people in his family, he hopes to provide for them better than he can do in El Salvador. He's never missed a day of work.
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  • Benjamin is from La Libertad, El Salvador. He has worked in many jobs, all of them with low pay. His last job was looking after swimming pools and he carries documents to prove it, for potential customers. Here he is waiting to board the train known as La Bestia in Apizaco, Mexico, on his way to the US. Including elderly and young children, there are 14 people in his family, he hopes to provide for them better than he can do in El Salvador. He's never missed a day of work.
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  • A Honduran migrant, waits for the train known as La Bestia in Apizaco, Mexico. Behind him, graffiti on the wall says 'Migrar no es delito'... migrating isn't a crime.
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  • A group of migrant workers sit on the sidings as a train passes. They are waiting for a train heading north. They are part of a group of 12 migrants who are all from the same neighbourhood in the same town in San Francisco Morazán, Honduras. Everyone in the group has worked in at least one trade, and they are hoping to find work in the US.
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  • An exhausted migrant rests on the rails of the freight train network known as La Bestia. Apizaco, Tlaxcala, Mexico.
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  • Honduran migrants resting outside the migrant refuge in Apizaco, Mexico.
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  • A honduran migrant walks the rail tracks on his way to stow away between carriages on a freight train known to many as La Bestia. Apizaco, Mexico.
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  • Benjamin is from La Libertad, El Salvador. He has worked in many jobs, all of them with low pay. His last job was looking after swimming pools and he carries documents to prove it, for potential customers. Here he is waiting to board the train known as La Bestia in Apizaco, Mexico, on his way to the US. Including elderly and young children, there are 14 people in his family, he hopes to provide for them better than he can do in El Salvador. He's never missed a day of work.
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  • Benjamin is from La Libertad, El Salvador. He has worked in many jobs, all of them with low pay. His last job was looking after swimming pools and he carries documents to prove it, to show potential customers. Here he reads a Bible as he is waiting to board the train known as La Bestia in Apizaco, Mexico. Including elderly and young children, there are 14 people in his family, he hopes to provide for them better than he can do in El Salvador. He's never missed a day of work.
    Mexico_migration_Hawkey_20210608_186.jpg
  • Honduran migrants walk the rail tracks their way to stow away between carriages on a freight train known to many as La Bestia. Apizaco, Mexico.
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  • Workers tie steel reinforcing together during the building of the East-West railway system in Venezuela. Venezuela has invested some $7.5 billion in the first 475 km of the new rail network, which is planned to extend over 13,000 km
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  • Men work on the railway in Pyongyang. Pyongyang is a modern city, it had to be rebuilt after being completely destroyed by the war in the early 1950s. Many of the buildings are pastel shades of pink and green.
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  • Migrants wait in line for food in a migrant refuge near the railway line in Apizaco, Mexico. The refuge is run by lay people and supported mainly by church groups. Migrants often arrive in exhausted, dehydrated, hungry and in need of medical attention. This point on the migrant journey from Honduras takes about a month to reach, including about two weeks walking in southern Mexico, then long and dangerous train rides on the rail network known as La Bestia. The refuge allows migrants to stay up to 48 hours.
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  • Young women in traditional Korean dress at the Pyongyang railway station.
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  • Yelin Javier Matute Ramos, 22. (with Ruth Abigael, his girlfriend)<br />
<br />
My father went with a smuggler to the US, but they had a fight.  My cousin was with them, he told us the story afterwards. They were in a cabin, but they left my dad outside. The smuggler tried to kill him by beating him, but he wouldn’t die, so he found a machete, cut his hand off, and killed him. Then he tied him to the back of a car and dragged his body around on the dirt road and dumped his body on the railway, so that they’d think he was killed by the train. His wife had to identify him, he was unrecognisable. They sent his body back. <br />
<br />
Despite that, I decided to try my own luck and migrate.<br />
<br />
My mother is in the US, I haven’t seen her for 12 years. <br />
<br />
I decided to go last year. <br />
<br />
A cartel stopped the lorry we were travelling in, they got us all out of the trailer. They told us all to get out all our money, or that they’d kill us. They put all the women separately.<br />
<br />
They killed the driver of the lorry, and his assistant. They asked the lorry driver how many people he was carrying, he said 40, they told him to count us, there were 125 of us. They cut four fingers off his hand, one by one, and then they put a knife into his throat. I didn’t want to see it, but they did it in front of us. Then they did the same to his assistant, they cut off four fingers and pushed a knife into his throat. <br />
<br />
They left us there on the side of the road. We were picked up by Mexican migration and seven days later we were back in Honduras. Everyone I went with went straight back, but I decided to stay. They’ve all got through to the US.<br />
<br />
We got a bus fare to get back to Olancho, we got back with nothing.<br />
Someone told me about the LWF programme and I decided to learn welding, I have those skills now, for life, no one can take that from me. And I’m working in buildings, making furniture, and I have my own equipment.<br />
<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • Near Pyongyang In North Korea, people pass through a railway crossing and stations going about their daily business.
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  • Yelin Javier Matute Ramos, 22. (with Ruth Abigael, his girlfriend)<br />
<br />
My father went with a smuggler to the US, but they had a fight.  My cousin was with them, he told us the story afterwards. They were in a cabin, but they left my dad outside. The smuggler tried to kill him by beating him, but he wouldn’t die, so he found a machete, cut his hand off, and killed him. Then he tied him to the back of a car and dragged his body around on the dirt road and dumped his body on the railway, so that they’d think he was killed by the train. His wife had to identify him, he was unrecognisable. They sent his body back. <br />
<br />
Despite that, I decided to try my own luck and migrate.<br />
<br />
My mother is in the US, I haven’t seen her for 12 years. <br />
<br />
I decided to go last year. <br />
<br />
A cartel stopped the lorry we were travelling in, they got us all out of the trailer. They told us all to get out all our money, or that they’d kill us. They put all the women separately.<br />
<br />
They killed the driver of the lorry, and his assistant. They asked the lorry driver how many people he was carrying, he said 40, they told him to count us, there were 125 of us. They cut four fingers off his hand, one by one, and then they put a knife into his throat. I didn’t want to see it, but they did it in front of us. Then they did the same to his assistant, they cut off four fingers and pushed a knife into his throat. <br />
<br />
They left us there on the side of the road. We were picked up by Mexican migration and seven days later we were back in Honduras. Everyone I went with went straight back, but I decided to stay. They’ve all got through to the US.<br />
<br />
We got a bus fare to get back to Olancho, we got back with nothing.<br />
Someone told me about the LWF programme and I decided to learn welding, I have those skills now, for life, no one can take that from me. And I’m working in buildings, making furniture, and I have my own equipment.<br />
<br />
LWF's programme for deported and returned migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190122_41...jpg