Head of Mexican migration authority charged over deadly Juarez fire
Mexico City Reuters A judge in northern Mexico has ordered the head of the national migration authority charged over a fire late last month that killed 40 migrants at a holding center in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said on Sunday. National Immigration Institute Commissioner Francisco Garduno arrives at the Federal Court to attend […]
New migrant caravan heads for Mexico City to speed up legal route to US
Tapachula, Mexico Reuters Thousands of migrants, detained for months in southern Mexico, formed a new caravan in protest on Sunday to head for the capital to speed up their applications for US asylum. The migrants, mostly Venezuelans, started their march north early in Tapachula, the city bordering Guatemala whose detention centres have been overwhelmed by […]
Mexico’s deadly fire a sign to rethink migrant detention centres, Red Cross says
Mexico City Reuters The fire that led to the deaths of 40 people in a migrant detention centre in northern Mexico marks a “good moment” to consider alternatives to depriving migrants of their freedom, a senior Red Cross regional officer said. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the detainees had been unable to escape […]
Migrants cried for help in Mexico fire but no one came, survivor recalls
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Reuters Eduard Caraballo screamed for help. Thick suffocating smoke was filling the cell where he was held with over 60 other migrants in northern Mexico, but there was no way out. The single door was locked shut. “We screamed for them to open the cell door, but no one helped us,” Caraballo, […]
Arrests made in deadly fire at Mexico detention centre
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters Five people have been arrested for alleged roles in the deaths of 39 people at a Mexican migrant detention centre this week after a fire broke out, authorities said Thursday. Six warrants were issued against three immigration institute officers, two private security officers and the person who allegedly started the fire, […]
Mexican President vows to deliver justice for migrants killed in fire
Updated: 1pm (AEDT)Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Reuters Migrants were locked in a cell as a blaze spread killing 39 people at a detention centre in Mexico, witnesses and a survivor said on Wednesday, as Mexico’s President vowed to bring to justice those responsible. An investigation is underway to determine what happened Monday at the centre in […]
At least 14 dead in armed attack on prison in Mexican border city Juarez
Mexico CityReuters Mexican authorities said on Sunday at least 14 people died in an armed attack at a prison in the northern border city Juarez and two more died during a later armed aggression elsewhere in the city. The Chihuahua state prosecutor said in a statement that among those who died in the prison attack […]
Educational opportunities: Pastor-led shelters bring schooling options to migrant kids
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on how pastor-run shelters have partnered with educators to help ensure migrant children in Mexico have access to education…
ESSAY: RISING SUICIDES IN MEXICO EXPOSE MENTAL HEALTH TOLL OF LIVING WITH EXTREME, CHRONIC VIOLENCE
CECILIA FARFÁN-MÉNDEZ, a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California San Diego, says while violence is once again rising in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, even when it was declining, the number of suicides was on the rise…