Immigration

Mexico operations thwart child, family migrants

By Mark Stevenson
Published August 29, 2014 4:47pm ET
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Mexico operations thwart child, family migrants
In this Aug. 26, 2014 photo, a Central American migrant sits alone atop a freight train as it heads north from Arriaga to Ixtepec, Mexico. A Mexican crackdown seems to be keeping women and children off the deadly train, known as "The Beast," that has traditionally helped thousands of migrants head north. The once-open route to the United States has become so difficult that trains now carry a small fraction of the migrants they used to, and almost exclusively adult men. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) | Rebecca Blackwell

CHAHUITES, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s largest crackdown in decades on illegal migration has decreased the flow of Central Americans 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.

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