The blaze occurred when migrants set fire to mattresses in protest after learning they would be deported, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said.
“This had to do with a protest that they started after – we assume – they found out they were going to be deported,” López Obrador said in a press conference Tuesday morning. “They placed mattresses by the exit door, lit them and couldn’t even imagine it [would] cause this terrible tragedy... What we know is they were migrants from Central America, some from Venezuela. We don’t have the exact names or the nationality of the people who lost their lives.
Jean Louie, from Haiti, said migrants during last night’s fire could not leave the detention center, which is more like an administrative office. “We want justice,” he said. “This is a crime against humanity.”Katiuska Márquez, 23, from Venezuela, waited outside the facility. She said she and her brother had been detained by Mexican agents, and they were held at the facility. She said she was released a few hours later because she was with her two children.
More than 30 migrant shelters and other advocacy organizations published an open letter March 9 that complained of a criminalization of migrants and asylum seekers in the city. It accused authorities of abuse and using excessive force in rounding up migrants, complaining that municipal police were questioning people in the street about their immigration status without cause.
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