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 […]
Prosecutors probe Mexico immigration chief over fire that killed 40 migrants
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters The head of Mexico’s immigration agency, Francisco Garduno, is under investigation over a deadly fire last month at a migrant detention center in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday. A view shows migrants camp outside the immigration detention centre where several migrants […]
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, […]