Posted on 09/20/2023 11:34:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Mexico’s largest freight company has temporarily halted 60 trains in the north — because of an “unprecedented” number of migrants hitching rides to the US border.
Ferromex announced the mass service suspension Tuesday, days after a video went viral showing hundreds of cheering migrants crammed into one of its trains.
The company said “the accumulation of migrants in recent days has increased significantly,” causing about a “half-dozen regrettable cases of injury or death” among those trying to illegally cross into the US.
“Due to this, Ferromex will temporarily suspend its operations on the affected routes to protect the physical integrity of the migrants, and will be monitoring whatever measures authorities implement,” the company announced.
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“half-dozen regrettable cases of injury or death” hs nothing to do with it. They got negative publicity from filming those trains.
They probably stopped because the cartels were not getting their cut.
We should be straff bombing the railways, nuking the cartels, and mining the border.
Riding on the outside of trains is at minimum uncomfortable for migrants. Biden just needs some time to arrange our tax dollars to go to the right NGO’s so luxury coach service can be provided. No, it’s not sarcasm when it’s true.
All of the pics I have seen of the thousands of dirt poor migrants on the verge of starvatrion, are wearing really nice and clean clothes...
nbcnews.com
Sept. 19, 2023
By Didi Martinez
Ferromex suspends 60 train routes for the first time ever.
Mexican firm stops sending freight trains north to U.S. border as ‘unprecedented’ number of migrants hitch rides. As more migrants hitch rides on freight trains headed north, and some are injured or killed, Ferromex suspends 60 routes for the first time ever.
pic-—Three young migrants traveling on a freight train crossing the border were discovered by the border patrol and asked to get off the train in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, in 2021.David Peinado / NurPhoto via Getty Images file
After recent deaths and injuries as more migrants hitch rides on its freight trains, Mexican transport firm Ferromex said that for the first time ever it will temporarily halt service on 60 different trains that travel toward the U.S. border.
The number of migrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico is rising, and thousands are hitching rides on northbound trains.
A spokesperson for Ferromex’s parent company, Grupo Mexico, told NBC News this is the first time the transportation company has shut down its railways due to migrant hitchhikers, and that the number of migrants trying to ride the trains was “unprecedented.”
pic—Migrants on top of a Ferromex train in Mexico.Courtesy Ferromex
In a statement, Ferromex said that “the accumulation of migrants in recent days has increased significantly,” and that the closure of routes into northern Mexico is intended to “avoid accidents or loss of life” after a half dozen incidents.
Ferromex is the largest freight train company in Mexico, operating more than 6,200 miles of track, and its trains service such cities on the U.S. border as Ciudad Juárez, Mexicali, Nogales and Piedras Negras.
In recent days, according to Ferromex, as many as 1,500 migrants have been trying to hitch rides on trains in Mexican cities like Torreon. On one route that ends at Ciudad Juárez, which is right across from El Paso, Texas, Ferromex said a single train may be carrying 1,000 hitchhikers.
News of the closures come as the number of migrant apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border continues to grow after a lull earlier this year. NBC News reported that on Sunday the U.S. Border Patrol apprehended more than 7,500 migrants along the southern border, according to two Department of Homeland Security officials.
Didi Martinez is an associate producer with the NBC News Investigative Unit.
i don’t really have a problem with such trains as long as they are non-stop to the northwest and northeast ...
Exactly.
It’s a total free for all in Eagle Pass right now. Mass illegal crossing taking place for over an hour and a half. Almost 2 years to the day we saw 15,000+ Haitians under the bridge in Del Rio, we now have thousands of predominantly Venezuelans gathering under Eagle Pass bridge. pic.twitter.com/VkfUQnexGZ— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 20, 2023
Green light that train all the way to Washington DC Union Station.
The OPEN cars were very well shown in pics.
MY QUESTION——WHAT are they using for “Bathroom facilities’???
And FAT women with pretty new show claiming they walked 2000 miles.
SHOW ME THE BATHROOM FACILITIES
Gravity, probably, and not much else.
The opposite of ‘I shot an arrow into the air...” philosophy.
I was trying to be cute. That was more likely a picture of a train from India, not Mexico. But I thought it would be funny to post it here.
Yes I know. Things are really accelerating though, and it is very frightening. 4000 more today just at Eagle Pass crossing. Texas has no place for this kind of daily invasion. Eagle Pass population is 28,000. At that rate Eagle Pass would have nearly a million and a half at that one crossing annually. Where are these people supposed to go?
Hire Shack as conductor. He knew how to deal with this.
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