Two guards seen leaving don’t even look at the migrants frantically trying to escape from the locked cell.
At least one man can be seen standing at the door of the jail as the smoke fills the room in just seconds.
— who were from Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela and El Salvador — had set their own mattresses on fire around 9 p.m. and placed them against the bars of the cell in protest after learning they would be deported. “There was smoke everywhere. The ones they let out were the women, and those with immigration,” Viangly Infante Padrón said. “The men, they never took them out until the firefighters arrived.”
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