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Train to El Norte - Prayers for the Journey Edwin Jose Sirius Cubrillo, 25, of Nicaragua, center, prays with around forty other migrants from Central America to Santo Rosario at the Hogar de la Misericordia shelter in the town of Arriaga, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico on Friday June 30, 2006. Arriaga is the starting point for the freight train, which poor migrants who don’t have money to hire a coyote will often ride, facing dangers ranging from theft and rape to mutilation or death if they fall from the train. Robbed in town of Huixtla, Cubrillo has been on the road for twenty days. “I have four children and I need to provide for them. In Nicaragua I can earn enough for food but that’s it.” He thinks he has at least 20 more days to go by travelling on the train. He hopes to get to Miami where he has family living. Just that morning a group of eleven men from El Salvador said they were robbed of all their money just 3 kilometers before arriving at the shelter after walking for nine days from the city of Tapachula, Mexico where they were also robbed. Four Mexican men with machetes and pistols threatened them if they didn’t give up all their money. This type of robbery is extremely common on the migrant trail.
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