Amputee Shelter
- added January 4, 2006
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Mariana van Zeller visits an amputee shelter in southern Mexico where she speaks with victims who have lost limbs on a train trying to get to the United States.
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- MarianaVanZeller
- 01/04/06
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If people wanted to make donations to this shelter how could they do it?
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width="486" height="407">Train of DeathMariana rode the train that many of these amputees tried to take the U.S.
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Thanks for posting the link to Death Train, Mike. For me, these two stories along with the Morocco and Mauritania Immigration stories (see links below) we did some months later, really make the immigration debate here feel a bit academic. Migration is such a primal instinct. If things are bad, you move to where they're better.
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African ExodusA look at the Immigration issue from across the Atlantic.
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Living in the ShadowsMorocco was the preferred launching point for African migrants trying to reach Europe. Here's what happened when Moroccan authorities under pressure from the EU began to crackdown.
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