A Mexican railway operator has announced it is suspending train runs in the northern part of the country because so many migrants are climbing aboard freight cars and getting hurt in the process.
railway operator announced Tuesday it is temporarily suspending train runs in the northern part of the country because so many migrants are climbing aboard freight cars and getting hurt in the process.
The company, owned by conglomerate Grupo Mexico, said some migrants even hopped on moving freight cars "despite the grave danger that represents." Pavel Aguilar Flores, a migrant from Venezuela, was hoping to hop a freight train to Matamoros, a dangerous Mexican border city across from Brownsville, Texas.
In fact, trains were still running through the railyard at Huehuetoca Tuesday evening, but they weren't heading where the migrants wanted to go.FILE - Hundreds of migrants ride atop a freight train arriving in Ciudad Juarez from the city of Chihuahua to the south on Sept. 20, 2023 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Ferromex is Mexico's largest concessionary rail operator and the impact of the train stoppage will be "very important," said Ana Bertha Gutiérrez, the international trade coordinator for the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness. Throngs of migrants knocked over metal barricades and pushed past National Guard officers and police stationed at the office. Some of the migrants were trampled by their colleagues in the rush.Crowds of frustrated migrants, including many from Cuba and Honduras, say they have had to wait for weeks in some cases for an appointment at the office in Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala.
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