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Migrants' Northward Trek Ends in Death and Deportation
In Palenque and across southern Mexico 250 Central American migrants chased work and food, faced hunger and exposure, and paid up to 4000 to smugglers. After five hours trapped in a heat soaked train car near the Guatemala border, at least three died and others were hospitalized before immigration officials detained the survivors for deportation.
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Palenque
Mexico
Montana
United States
Joos
Ana Deisy Marquez
Angel Bustillo
Jose Erresto
Coapas
Plaves de Catazaia
Oex
Marquez
Cam
Sant
Ramiro Quintero
Central America
Jose Ernesto
Tabasco
Veracruz
Quintero
Raoul