Migrants sent home as rail to U.S. closes

Mexican immigration authorities deported some of the thousands of U.S.-bound Central American migrants who were stranded near the border with Guatemala after an American-run railroad closed.

Some were camped along rail lines waiting for trains that will never come. Others tried to walk hundreds of miles to the next working line and some turned themselves in to authorities.

For decades migrants have hopped freight cars on the Chiapas-Mayab railway, but in late July, the Connecticut-based Genesee & Wyoming Inc. withdrew from a 30-year concession to operate the line.

Mexico’s National Immigration Institute did not respond to requests for comment.