to be the largest in recent memory, involved around 1,300 Cuban migrants. ....
Looks like Cubans would prefer to cross towards the east coast.
Posted on 04/27/2019 10:11:11 AM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
Hundreds of migrants board 'the Beast' train in Mexico in risky move to get closer to US border
[NOTE: "Risky" is obviously due to the fact that hundreds are riding on the OUTSIDE of the train, as the photos show.]
.... The decision to board the train en masse comes after a breakout of migrants from a troubled immigration detention center in the southern border city of Tapachula on Thursday night.
Mexico’s National Immigration Institute said the mass escape, which appears to be the largest in recent memory, involved around 1,300 Cuban migrants. ....
Migration authorities said nearly 400 migrants boarded the train.....
[PHOTO CAPTION] Central American migrants hold Honduras' national flag, while moving in a caravan through Juchitan, Oaxaca atop a train....
President Trump has been pressuring Mexico ... even threatening to close down the border if President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador doesn’t stop illegal migrants from coming to the U.S. border.
Mexico has largely been responsive to the pressure, stepping up the efforts to detain the migrants and deport them back home.
But such crackdown also led to migrants using the train ... this way dozens of police and immigration checkpoints along the Mexican highways can be avoided...
The train has been used by migrants in the past, but it became ignored in recent years because of the dangers of the journey, including death or lost limbs ....
“It's going to go back to the way it was, the (Mexican) government doesn't want them to be seen. If the migrants move quietly like a stream of little ants, they'll allow them to, but they are not going to allow them to move through Mexico publicly or massively,” he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
If our super secret special forces “operators” were any good, that train would be disabled or destroyed.
Okay, so do the met-eek-ins not have “yard dicks” like used to toss hobos from the trains?
I wonder how a drone, not necessarily carrying a bomb, might disable a train? Spray something into the air intake for the diesel engine?
Say, is that a bridge ahead? Not anymore.
I’ll just bet the leftist media are now figuring out all kinds of analogies between this train and the Holocaust / Death-camp trains. For example, the US forcing this train to turn around and go back to where it came from is no different than sending a train to Auschwitz. And so on.
Just RPG the engine. Job one done!
“Hundreds of migrants”
Faux News doesn’t know the difference between a migrant and an illegal alien!
KILL THE SMUGGLERS!!!
“Not Zee president we wanted”. Thus Trump=naught Zee.
KILL THE TRAIN CONDUCTORS!!!
I thought of that. But I was trying to come up with A Kinder Gentler Way of disabling it, that doesn’t kill the engineers and cause bad PR. Maybe an RPG into the coupling mechanism connecting the engine to the car behind it.
Looks like Cubans would prefer to cross towards the east coast.
They kind of operate on orders...
yeah, where’s the Shack when you need him?
IIRC, engines have generators to power the electric motors that propel them. They sound like they are driven by diesle engines, but the’re electric. Strange, but true...
One .50 cal Browning would kill the “Beast.” Right in its tracks!
Smart bomb utilization is indicated.
The word is out. Show up at the U.S. border and you get in. And you get to stay.
And have constitutional protection too. And better benefits than folks born and raised here. What a country huh!?
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