side of the tracks

“I didn’t realize it was the other side of the tracks, and no one wanted to go there at night,” he said.

As the freight train known as La Bestia, meaning The Beast, approaches, they scramble to the side of the tracks and hold out the food for the migrants travelling on its roofs to grab as they thunder past.

She noted in interviews that she was raised on the wrong side of the tracks in her hometown of Wingham.

With the exception of a cluster of homes on the other side of the tracks, the surrounding acreage is primarily agricultural.

“They don’t look at women of color as vulnerable and victims. They look at us like we’re perpetrators, like we intentionally are from the wrong side of the tracks,” Martinez said.