Scott Detrow

The train can offer a way to travel north without paying smugglers. But the risks are great. Migrants have been kidnapped, assaulted and extorted by cartels. Accidents are common. Migrants have been killed in Maine by falling from the tops of the freight cars.

The train can offer a way to travel north without paying smugglers. But the risks are great. Migrants have been kidnapped, assaulted and extorted by cartels. Accidents are common. Migrants have been killed in Maine by falling from the tops of the freight cars.

The train can offer a way to travel north without paying smugglers. But the risks are great. Migrants have been kidnapped, assaulted and extorted by cartels. Accidents are common. Migrants have been killed in Maine by falling from the tops of the freight cars.

And now, with the Trump administration suspending asylum claims at the southern border, there are fewer avenues to entering the United States than there were even a few months ago. So the question Ada Peralta had when he set out to join migrants on La Bestia was simple. Why take the risk?

And now, with the Trump administration suspending asylum claims at the southern border, there are fewer avenues to entering the United States than there were even a few months ago. So the question Ada Peralta had when he set out to join migrants on La Bestia was simple. Why take the risk?

And now, with the Trump administration suspending asylum claims at the southern border, there are fewer avenues to entering the United States than there were even a few months ago. So the question Ada Peralta had when he set out to join migrants on La Bestia was simple. Why take the risk?

Even when the policy of the U.S. government right now is, we don't want you, we don't want to give you any of these resources, we want to arrest you or deport you for the country or both.

Even when the policy of the U.S. government right now is, we don't want you, we don't want to give you any of these resources, we want to arrest you or deport you for the country or both.

Even when the policy of the U.S. government right now is, we don't want you, we don't want to give you any of these resources, we want to arrest you or deport you for the country or both.

Let me turn the why question to you, because obviously the immigration story is a major part of your beat. But you can and you have told that story a lot of different ways. Why to you was this story worth climbing on top of a two story freight train and riding it as it traveled 50 miles an hour?

Let me turn the why question to you, because obviously the immigration story is a major part of your beat. But you can and you have told that story a lot of different ways. Why to you was this story worth climbing on top of a two story freight train and riding it as it traveled 50 miles an hour?

Let me turn the why question to you, because obviously the immigration story is a major part of your beat. But you can and you have told that story a lot of different ways. Why to you was this story worth climbing on top of a two story freight train and riding it as it traveled 50 miles an hour?

Was he right? Did, on the other side of that, did you feel like you understood this in a different way?

Was he right? Did, on the other side of that, did you feel like you understood this in a different way?

Was he right? Did, on the other side of that, did you feel like you understood this in a different way?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.