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As many as a half-million undocumented immigrants, including more and more children, make dangerous 1,450-mile trips atop this network of freight trains each year.

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Many immigrants in the US know this particularly dangerous train ride very well

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Mexico's dangerous 'Beast' trains take migrants to US border

Shocking new video shows hundreds of migrants cheering and waving the Venezuelan flag on top of The Beast cargo train to the US border after 11,000 are encountered crossing in just one