Video of the migrant detention center fire shows people dressed as guards coming across at least one migrant – and then hurrying away without opening the cell doors as billowing clouds of smoke fill the structure within seconds.
in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Venezuelan migrant Viangly Infante Padrón was terrified because she knew her husband was still inside.
"I was desperate because I saw a dead body, a body, a body, and I didn't see him anywhere," Infante Padrón said of her husband, Eduard Caraballo López, who in the end survived with only light injuries, perhaps because he was scheduled for release and was near a door. Migrants hold a candlelight vigil outside the office of the National Institute of Migration on March 28, 2023 in memory of the victims of a fire that broke out late on Monday at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.Immigration authorities said they released 15 women when the fire broke out but haven't explained why no men were released.
Mexico's National Immigration Institute said it was cooperating in the investigation. Guatemala has already said many of the victims were its citizens, but full identification of the dead and injured remains incomplete. Hundreds of migrants go to the migration offices on March 28, 2023 to request information about the victims of a fire inside the migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.Those same advocacy organizations published an open letter March 9 that complained of a criminalization of migrants and asylum seekers in Ciudad Juarez.
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