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In pictures: An illegal immigrant’s journey into the US

By Martin Little
In pictures: An illegal immigrant’s journey into the US
Central American migrants use trash bags and cardboard to protect themselves from the rain as they wait atop a stuck freight train, outside Reforma de Pineda, Chiapas state, Mexico.
a Central American migrant practices scaling parked boxcars, as he awaits the arrival of a northbound freight train in Arriaga, Chiapas state, Mexico. The number of unaccompanied minors detained on the U.S. border has more than tripled since 2011. Children are also widely believed to be crossing with their parents in rising numbers, although the Obama administration has not released year-by-year figures.
a Central American migrant carrying a small child waits alongside a stuck northbound freight train, outside Reforma de Pineda, Chiapas state, Mexico. The migrants faith that children will be allowed to stay in the U.S. isn't totally misplaced. While Mexicans are usually returned across the border quickly when they're caught, overwhelmed border facilities are unable to care for most Central American children. Minors crossing the border alone are generally released into the care of relatives already in the U.S., while mothers with children are generally let go with a notice to reappear later in immigration court.
Guatemalan migrant Gladys Chinoy, 14, waits along with more than 500 other migrants, after the freight train they were traveling on suffered a minor derailment, leaving them stranded for more than 12 hours in a remote wooded area outside Reforma de Pineda, Chiapas state, Mexico. On the last day of middle school, Chinoy memorized her mother's phone number in New York City and boarded a bus to Guatemala's northern border. Once across the river into Mexico, she joined a group of women and children traveling with a smuggler paid to take migrants to the U.S.