Mexico’s top immigration official will face criminal charges in a fire that killed 40 migrants in Ciudad Juarez last month.
Mexico’s top immigration official will face criminal charges in a fire that killed 40 migrants in Ciudad Juarez last month, with federal prosecutors saying he was remiss in not preventing the disaster despite earlier indications of problems at his agency’s detention centers.
At least 38 people died in a fire late Monday at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, officials said. Prosecutors said that after a fire at another detention center in the Gulf Coast state of Tabasco killed one person and injured 14 in 2020, the immigration agency knew there were problems that needed to be corrected. but alleged they failed to act.In Mexico, migrants mourn those killed in detention center fire, angry over treatment as they wait in immigration and asylum limbo at the U.S. border.
A video from a security camera inside the facility shows guards walking away when the fire started inside the cell holding migrants. In Guatemala City, relatives of the victims gathered at an air force base with flowers and photos of the dead to mark their return.
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