As an "unprecedented" number of migrants hitch rides on its freight trains, Mexico's Ferromex is pausing service on 60 trains that travel toward the U.S. border.

The long last night Soon we spotted our ride: another one of the truck trailer cars — the only one on a long train of mostly boxcars with louver-type slats on the sides.

Mexican authorities blocked dozens of migrants from hitching a ride to the U.S. on freight trains in Mexico City on Friday in a major new enforcement effort.

Thousands of migrants have used the freight trains, known as ‘The Beast,’ to travel through Mexico to the United States.

And he rides this train a lot. He's working on a long term project on this train. And he had told me, you know, you should ride the train.