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Taking a ride on a freight train to cover migration to the U.S.

NPR | By Noah Caldwell,

Scott Detrow, Eyder Peralta

Published March 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM EST

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Eyder Peralta transports us to Mexico for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

For decades, migrants have been riding north through Mexico aboard a freight train nicknamed "La Bestia." An NPR reporter hopped on board to ask some migrants why they do it.