article_snippet: The majority of those attempting to hitch a ride on the trains are from Central American countries like Honduras and El Salvador who are willing to risk those attempting to hitch a ride on the trains lives for the opportunity to work illegally in menial jobs should those attempting to hitch a ride on the trains ever actually reach the U.S..
article_snippet: Referring to the United States as 'the promised land' the train hoppers that manage to make it on to a speeding locomotive are seen clinging on for dear life as they tear through the countryside of northern Mexico to the border they stand little to no chance of actually making it across.
article_snippet: Instead they wait out in the Mexican countryside, where they are unlikely to have been spotted and make the death-defying leap on to trains speeding along the rails.
article_snippet: Referring to America as 'the promised land' the train hoppers that manage to make it on to a speeding locomotive are seen clinging on for dear life as they tear through the countryside of northern Mexico to the border they stand little to no chance of actually making it across .
article_snippet: U.S.-bound trains in Mexico are for the poorest of the poor,' says Carlos Miranda, a migration expert in the southern state of Chiapas. '
article_snippet: Nobody knows precisely how many migrants take U.S.-bound trains in Mexico, but on certain days, in the most popular train towns - Arriaga, along the southern Pacific Coast, and Tenosique, a modest farming town south of the Yucatan - you will find hundreds, even thousands, of people waiting by the tracks.
article_snippet: If hundreds, even thousands, of people waiting by the tracks are lucky, hundreds, even thousands, of people waiting by the tracks will hang on long enough to make it to Mexico City, where hundreds, even thousands, of people waiting by the tracks switch lines in the massive train yards, and then in dwindling numbers head out again, pushing north to the U.S. border, or as close as hundreds, even thousands, of people waiting by the tracks can get.
article_snippet: Death-defying: Mexico tries to catch the train hoppers before the train hoppers enter Mexico.
article_snippet: Nobody knows precisely how many migrants take the trains, but on certain days, in the most popular train towns - Arriaga, along the southern Pacific Coast, and Tenosique and Tabasco (pictured) - you will find hundreds, even thousands, of people waiting by the tracks .
article_snippet: No other option: 'U.S.-bound trains in Mexico are for the poorest of the poor,' says Carlos Miranda, a migration expert in the southern state of Chiapas. '
article_snippet: Mexico tries to catch the train jumpers before the majority of the people enter Honduras.