A mom tells of having baby during brutal 3-month migrant journey: Reporter's notebook
Mildret Paz and her family left three months ago from Venezuela for their journey north to the United States. The freight train looks like any other until it gets closer -- that's when the silhouettes dotting the tops of the train cars come into view. Hundreds of migrants are on board, some waving and smiling at us as they pass by, other miserable and downtrodden, trying their best to hide from the merciless midday sun. We're about 20 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border along train tracks that bring cargo from farther south in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The train is not designed to carry people, but carry people it does. Migrants hitch a ride for what will be, for most, the last leg of a journey months in the making. MORE: Migrants desperate to live in US endure inhumane conditions near the Mexican border: Reporter's notebook When the train creaks to a stop, the migrants climb down. The young men leap off, a com Pet ition of sorts to see who can jump down the quic...