Latin Times has compiled 10 inspiration quotes from politicians, poets and writers which recognize the struggles as well as the contributions of the world's many migrants.

International Migrants Day 2013 is a day to recognize and celebrate the millions of people around the world who have left their homeland in search of a better future or a new opportunity.

One of the victims said that a group of 10 armed men descended upon the train carrying them and stripped them of clothes, money and backpacks. Attacks on migrants hitching a ride to the United States on cargo trains in Mexico's southern states often occur with the collusion of train operators.

30 Haitian migrants were killed after their boat capsized off the coast of the Bahamas.

In Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Maricopa County, about 75 percent of the 1,800 people brought up on human-trafficking conspiracy charges were actually charged with conspiring to smuggle themselves.

Migrants passing through Mexico on their way to the United States are often targets for organized crime. About 6 out of every 10 women are raped on their journey.

Diana Evelyn Mata Monreal, the director of Mexico’s Social Assistance and Humanitarian Aid Foundation (ASAHAC), told Notimex that both the US Border Patrol and citizen border patrol groups were using dogs more often to track down migrants.

The Border Patrol said it would bring in more members of a special rescue unit. Agents in the Tucson sector rescued more than 170 people from the desert during a 30-day stretch in May and June when temperatures were even lower than expected over this weekend.

The remains of almost 800 people, or 34 percent of the total examined by the Pima County Office o the Medical Examiner since 1990, haven’t been identified.

A group of 165 migrants was discovered to have been taken captive for up to three weeks as they attempted to cross the U.S. border, Mexican authorities said.