Mexican soup kitchen for migrants re-opens despite crime threat 140,000 Central Americans make the long and arduous clandestine journey through Mexico every year- hoping to reach the US border. Many travel on the back of a cargo train - and in Huehuetoca near Mexico City, where many wait in the hope of jumping on the train north, a soup kitchen feeds the destitute migrants. Forced to close in November after threats from organised crime, it re-opened on Monday despite the danger. Images.