Mexico authorities stage midnight migrant raid

By Mark Stevenson

Published August 29, 2014 8:59pm ET

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Mexico authorities stage midnight migrant raid — RESENDING RLB101 TO REPLACE CORRUPT FILE - Immigration officials remove Central American migrants from a northbound freight train during a raid by federal police in San Ramon, Mexico, just after midnight on the morning of Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. The largest crackdown by Mexican authorities on illegal migration in decades has decreased the flow of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States, and has dramatically cut the number of child migrants and families, according to officials and eyewitness accounts along the perilous route. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) | Rebecca Blackwell

SAN RAMON, Mexico (AP) — 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.

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