Migrants risk life and limb to jump Mexico trains in rush to border

Migrants, mostly from Venezuela, walk on top of railroad cars as they get ready to continue their journey to the U.S. border in the site known as El Basurero, a stretch of land next to a trash dump and the railroad, in Huehuetoca, State of Mexico, Mexico April 26, 2023. REUTERS/Gustavo Graf

HUEHUETOCA, Mexico (Reuters) - Thousands of migrants in Mexico have been clambering onto dangerous freight trains rumbling northward in a scramble to reach the U.S. border by the time the United States ends a tough migration policy later this week.

In recent weeks, up to several hundred people have boarded daily, activists and officials say, with many setting off atop train cars pulling out from a brief stopping point at a garbage dump in Huehuetoca, a town north of Mexico City.