39 Foreign Migrants Die in a Fire at Detention Center in Mexico Near the U.S. Border – Mexico’s President Says Migrants Started the Fire (VIDEO)
Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico- Mexican authorities said 39 foreign migrants died after a fire broke out at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city on the US Border across from El Paso. 29 additional migrants were injured.
The fire started around 10 P.M. Central according to the National Immigration Institute. There were 68 men from Central and South America held in the facility at the time of the fire.
The Associated Press (AP) reported that hours after the fire started, rows of migrant bodies were laid out under “shimmery silver sheets” outside the center.
This was the scene of the fire at the national migration institute in Juarez.
Mexican Socialist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) said the fire was started by the migrants.
This had to do with a protest that (the migrants) started after we suppose they found out that they were going to be deported & as a protest they placed mats at the door of the shelter & set them on fire.
The AP said the tensions “been running high” in Ciudad, Juarez between authorities and migrants due to the foreign nationals’ desperation to reach U.S. soil.
Tensions between authorities and migrants had apparently been running high in recent weeks in Ciudad Juarez, where shelters are full of people waiting for opportunities to cross into the U.S. or who have requested asylum there and are waiting out the process.
The AP said the tensions “been running high” in Ciudad, Juarez between authorities and migrants due to the foreign nationals’ desperation to reach U.S. soil.
Tensions between authorities and migrants had apparently been running high in recent weeks in Ciudad Juarez, where shelters are full of people waiting for opportunities to cross into the U.S. or who have requested asylum there and are waiting out the process.
