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    Mexican Railway Company Seeks To Reduce Number of Stowaways

    Mexican Railway Company Seeks To Reduce Number of Stowaways

    Posted: Jul 25, 2014 6:11 PM
    Updated: Jul 25, 2014 6:17 PM

    WESLACO - The Mexican train used by countless Central Americans to reach the United States-Mexico border will increase its speed to reduce the number of stowaways.

    The cargo train, called La Bestia (the beast), typically travels at 6 miles per hour in areas where the Central Americans climb aboard. The company that operates the train plans to increase that speed to about 18 miles per hour.


    Central Americans run alongside the train to climb aboard the rail cars. The practice is dangerous. A fall may land a migrant under the train wheels.


    The increased speeds may result in more injuries or deaths. The rail company did not address that issue in a news release.


    It is also unclear if the increased speeds will reduce the number of immigrants that reach the South Texas border.

    http://www.krgv.com/news/mexican-rai...-of-stowaways/

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    Now a QUESTION JUMPS AT me. Were they slowing down purposely to make boarding possible? If so, was anyone compensating someone for that convenience?

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    “People have been boarding the train because the quality of the railroad has diminished, the quality of the operation has diminished, and therefore the velocity of the train has diminished.”

    "Pons said the company plans on also eliminating the use of screws on their train tracks, opting instead to weld tracks together using planchuelas, or metal plates, that connect the rails. She said this will stop thieves from stealing portions of the train track, forcing trains to stop so that immigrants can climb aboard."

    http://www.alipac.us/f12/company-hop...ng-u-s-307996/



    http://www.alipac.us/f12/mexican-tra...rd-u-s-306855/
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    The Mexican government has announced plans to invest about $100 billion in rail, road and port projects over the next five years, including Mexico's first high-speed rail links.

    Mexico abandoned all regular passenger train service more than a decade ago, but now wants to revive the service.

    http://www.alipac.us/f12/mexico-anno...-roads-283506/
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    The Beast is owned and run by a Mexican wholly owned subsidiary of Kansas City Southern, a U.S. train company that acquired the Mexican equipment and routes in 2005 to create a “NAFTA Railroad” that was intended to fit into a multi-modal transportation technology so Chinese companies could deliver products into the heartland of the United States as an alternative to utilizing the West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

    Mexican prosecutors have filed criminal complaints charging railroad with complicity in violations of the civil rights of the thousands of unaccompanied minors from Central America illegally hitching rides on the train in their efforts to cross into the U.S. over the border with Mexico.


    http://www.alipac.us/f12/mexicans-bl...uthern-307120/



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    Eduardo Verdugo/AP
    Migrants walk between parked trains July 12 after getting off one in Ixtepec, southern Mexico, during their journey toward the U.S. border with Mexico. Tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors, the vast majority from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, have been apprehended at the U.S. border from October to June, according to the Border Patrol. That’s more than double the same period the previous year.
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