Faces of the Displayes: Daniela
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Title
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Faces of the Displayes: Daniela
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Description
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Honduran transgender immigrant Daniela, 20, spends spends time at the Hermanos en el Camino immigrant shelter on August 5, 2013 in Ixtepec, Mexico. She has been staying at the shelter for more than a month while Mexican immigration authorities process documents to allow her to travel to the U.S. border via bus, a much safer alternative than riding the freight trains north, where women and transgender immigrants like Daniela are especially at risk of rape. Thousands of Central American migrants ride atop the trains, known as 'la bestia', or the beast, during their long and perilous journey north through Mexico. Some of the immigrants are robbed and assaulted by gangs who control the train tops, while others fall asleep and tumble down, losing limbs or perishing under the wheels of the trains. Only a fraction of the immigrants who start the journey in Central America will traverse Mexico completely unscathed - and all this before illegally entering the United States and facing the considerable U.S. border security apparatus designed to track, detain and deport them.
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Creator
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John Moore
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Source
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http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/honduran-transgender-immigrant-daniela-spends-spends-time-news-photo/175685220
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Date Created
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August 5, 2013
