When smoke began billowing out of a migrant detention centre in Ciudad Juarez, Venezuelan migrant Viangly Infante Padron was terrified.
We apologize, but this video has failed to load.Immigration authorities said they released 15 women when the fire broke out, but have not explained why no men were let out.
In the video, later confirmed by the government, two people dressed as guards rush into the camera frame, and at least one migrant appears by the metal gate on the other side. But the guards don’t appear to make any effort to open the cell doors and instead hurry away as billowing clouds of smoke fill the structure within seconds.Article content
For many, the tragedy was the foreseeable result of a long series of decisions made by leaders in places like Venezuela and Central America, and by immigration policymakers in Mexico and the United States, as well of residents in Ciudad Juarez complaining about the number of migrants asking for handouts on street corners.Article content
Mexican authorities and firefighters remove injured migrants, mostly Venezuelans, from inside the National Migration Institute building during a fire, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Monday, March 27, 2023.President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offered sympathy Tuesday, but held out little hope of change.Advertisement 7“They never imagined that this would cause this terrible misfortune,” Lopez Obrador said.
“We had said that with the number of people they were sending, the sheer number of people was creating a ticking time bomb,” Mujica said. “Today that time bomb exploded.” After that, Ciudad Juarez Mayor Cruz Perez Cuellar started campaigning to inform migrants there was room in shelters and no need to beg in the streets. He urged residents not to give money to them, and said authorities removed migrants intersections where it was dangerous to beg and residents saw the activity as a nuisance.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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