Mexico cracks down on migrants hitching ride to US on freight train known as 'The Beast'
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Mexican authorities have begun a major new enforcement effort to dissuade migrants from climbing aboard freight trains headed for the United States.
Earlier this week, the Mexican railway company Ferromex temporarily suspended 60 trains running in the northern part of the country as migrants are getting hurt while climbing aboard the freight cars. Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) has since deployed agents to dissuade people from climbing aboard, according to Reuters. Chris Pandolfo is a writer for Fox News Digital. Send tips to chris.pandolfo@fox.com and follow him on Twitter @ChrisCPandolfo.
At a railway alongside a trash dump in Huehuetoca, a town north of Mexico City, some 40 INM agents in more than a dozen vans drove alongside the tracks to cut off access to migrants and sent up a drone to locate others who had scrambled into the surrounding hills.