Mexican train derails, stranding 1,300 migrants headed toward U.S. (da Beast)

Reuters ^ | July 9, 2014 | Joanna Zuckerman Bernstein

[Tennessee Nana]

(Reuters) - A cargo train used by Mexicans and Central Americans to travel toward the U.S. border derailed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on Wednesday, stranding about 1,300 migrants, emergency services said.

Many of the migrants aboard were young people and nobody was injured when the train nicknamed "the Beast" came off the tracks, a spokesman for local emergency services said.

[Salgak]

Perhaps some Predator drones can be tasked to make this a regular occurrence, and persuade the illegals not to take the chance. Something in an anti-personnel load that would not damage the PAYING cargo. ..

[VanDeKoik]

Blow Mexican railroad tracks.

If that nation wants to be complicit in this, then it is war.

[Twotone]

And Obama will no doubt add an appropriation for train repair in his next funding request.

[forgotten man]

The train was probably overloaded. No satire intended.