article_snippet: Another thing unites the men too - their all or nothing desire to start new lives in the United States where, as illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants are unlikely to find work other than as exploited, below-minimum-wage workers in restaurants, cleaning and maintenance businesses and on building sites. '
article_snippet: This is why the majority of the people come.
article_snippet: Impossible to know - not everyone is counted.
article_snippet: Women and children are most vulnerable, to both the elements and to the men, and are usually the most difficult to spot.
article_snippet: You can find Women and children hiding in the dark hollows of the hopper cars, the children wide-eyed, Women and children mothers fingering the family Bible.