Mexico Authorities Stage Midnight Raid On Illegal Alien ‘Beast’ Train

Fox News — The lumbering freight train known as “The Beast,” a key part of the route for migrants heading north to the United States, rolled to an abrupt, unscheduled stop in the black of midnight. Mexican federal police and immigration agents had waited silently in the brush alongside for at least hour, visible only by the glint of their powerful flashlights. As the train stopped, the area was suddenly flooded with spotlights as agents pounced from both sides of the track, scaling ladders to the tops of the freight cars and shouting: “Federal police! Give up! You’re surrounded! Come down carefully!” About a dozen men, some literally spitting with anger and desperation, were firmly led off the track, an agent’s hand on the back of their necks neck, and taken to waiting vans for processing and deportation. Agents helped a lone female migrant clambering over a coupling between cars to reach their van, telling her “Walk carefully, don’t fall.” [Read More]