Las Patronas: Women Helping Child Migrants as They Make Their Way Across Mexico Deborah Bonello - VOXXI
go to original July 16, 2014

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VERACRUZ, Mexico — While the United States is grappling with how to handle the thousands of child migrants arriving at its borders from Central America, a group of women in central Mexico has been quietly attending to them for years.

“Before it was just the men who migrated, but not anymore. The whole family goes — women, pregnant women, young children and babies. We’ve seen mothers on the train with their babies,” says Julia Ramirez of Las Patronas as she spoons rice into bags to be wrapped up and thrown onto the trains.

Thousands of migrants traveling north from countries like Honduras and El Salvador ride on the top of the freight trains, known as “La Bestia” or The Beast, that rumble through Mexico every day.

The children who are increasingly making that journey are even more vulnerable than their adult counterparts.

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