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Migrant workers in El Progreso, Honduras, injured during their journey on "the train of death" to the U.S are shown in this combination photo June 24. They are (top row from left): Norman Varela, Carlos Galindo, Juan Castro, (bottom row from left): Marco Cruz, Alexis Martinez and Sergio Rosales.

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Salvadorean migrants run to jump on a train to the border with the United States, in Lecheria, 30 km north of Mexico City, on June 1, 2010. The dangerous practice results in deaths and maimings each year.

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Train accident victim Jose Hernandez, 24, holds his prosthetic leg in El Progreso, Honduras, June 24. A migrant worker on his way to the U.S., Hernandez was run over by a train in Mexico in 2004 and lost his arm and right leg, as well as three fingers on his left hand.

Migrants risk life and limb to work in U.S.

According to a local migrants organization, thousands of Central Americans - predominantly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala - cross Mexico's southern border into the U.S. every year on a train popularly known as "the train of death," during which many die or get seriously injured falling off from crowded trains.

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