Government to Monitor Satellite Images of Mexico's Trains Used By Migrants Liz Diaz - Reuters
go to original August 26, 2014

Mexico clamps down on migrant freight train travel (BBC/Video News)

MEXICO CITY - Mexico said it would use satellite imagery to monitor key railway lines running toward the U.S. border to ensure the safety of the tracks and to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants heading north for the United States.

A top interior ministry official said a dozen satellite-monitored vehicles are to be deployed ahead of cargo trains near Mexico's southern border with Guatemala that Central American migrants often jump on as they journey north.

The vehicles will be charged with monitoring the tracks, relaying real-time data on damage as well as on migrants seeking to climb on the trains.

The new technology aims to "prevent migrants from putting at risk the safety of the trains which are for cargo, not passengers," Humberto Mayans, the interior ministry's southern border coordinator, told reporters.

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