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While Mexicans demonstrate across the United States for better treatment of illegal immigrants, Mexico's own illegal population - hundreds of thousands of Central Americans - has to put up with hostile laws, robberies, assaults and extortion. On the photo above, Central American migrants ride a train on Monday on their way to the United States near the town of Tultitlan, on the outskirts of Mexico City. At right, Guatemalan Jose Ramos, 18, checks a map of Mexico as he and his girlfriend, who did not want to be identified, wait to also hop on a train headed north.
