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\u201cThere has been a significant increase in the number of migrants in recent days,\u201d Ferromex said in the statement, adding that it was stopping the trains \u201cto protect the physical safety of the migrants,\u201d while it awaited action by authorities to solve the problem.<\/p>\n
But the word had yet to trickle down to the migrants themselves, hundreds of whom waited on the tracks and alongside them at a railway yard in Huehuetoca, on the northern outskirts of Mexico City.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven’t heard any news,\u201d Aguilar Flores said. \u201cWe are going to continue on our journey, and in fact we’re waiting for a train.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have heard there have been accidents, but not so many as people say,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to be careful and get on the train when it’s stopped, not when it’s moving.\u201d<\/p>\n
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In fact, trains were still running through the railyard at Huehuetoca Tuesday evening, but they weren’t heading where the migrants wanted to go.<\/p>\n
According to Ferromex, the worst problems appeared to be further north.<\/p>\n
The company said there were about 1,500 people gathered at a rail yard in the city of Torreon, in the northern border state of Coahuila. The company also reported about 800 migrants waiting at the freight yards in Irapuato, in the north-central state of Guanajuato.<\/p>\n
About 1,000 people were reported to be riding freight cars on the train line that connects the city of Chihuahua and the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez.<\/p>\n
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Don’t miss… <\/strong> Ferromex is Mexico’s largest concessionary rail operator and the impact of the train stoppage will be \u201cvery important,\u201d said Ana Bertha Guti\u00e9rrez, the international trade coordinator for the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness.<\/p>\n She noted the measure could hit industrial states like Nuevo Leon, Baja California and Chihuahua hard, given their links to the U.S. market.<\/p>\n Migrants have long used the trains, known collectively as \u201cThe Beast,” to hitch rides from as far south as Oaxaca state to the US border. About a decade ago, the Mexican government briefly staged raids on the trains to discourage the practice, but later largely abandoned the effort.<\/p>\n The announcement comes as migrants are increasingly desperate to reach the US border.<\/p>\n On Monday, migrants mostly from Haiti burst into an asylum office in southern Mexico city of Tapachula.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Authorities later convinced many to leave, and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n
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