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Amidst the commotion over the fire occurred this morning in an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexicofor which they died at least 40 people, Local media released a video in which it can be seen how the detainees remained locked in the cells while the flames advanced.
After the tragic fire, a 32-second recording began to circulate on social networks that shows the start of the incident and in which it can be seen how the local authorities leave the immigration center, leaving the detainees locked in the cell while the flames advance. .
Fire at a migrant center in Ciudad Juárez
The images captured by the surveillance cameras broadcast by the Mexican media show how a group of people, apparently migrants, kick a gate trying to open it while the fire spreads in the place where they are locked up.
Simultaneously, at least three uniformed migration agents circulate on the other side of the fence without making any visible maneuver to help them.
Then the smoke invades the place. The veracity of the video was confirmed by the Secretary of the Interior (Interior), Adán López, in an interview with a local station.
The incident broke out on Monday night at the facilities of the National Institute of Migration (INM) in this city in the state of Chihuahua, occupied by dozens of men of legal age from Central and South America.
“This had to do with a protest that they started, from, we assume, that they found out that they were going to be deported,” said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“As a protest, they put mattresses at the door of the shelter and set them on fire, and they did not imagine that this was going to cause this terrible misfortune,” he added, confirming the number of deaths.
The Guatemalan government confirmed the death of 28 of its nationals and said that the government will work to punish those responsible and make reparations to the relatives. The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry also reported the death of one of its citizens.
In Mexico, the Attorney General’s Office reported that among the “identified migrants” there are also 13 Hondurans, 12 Venezuelans, 12 Salvadorans and one Colombian, without differentiating between the dead and the injured. The injured, some seriously, were transferred to four hospitals, according to the authorities. , while the INM coordinates with consular officials to identify the deceased.
The tragedy generated multiple expressions of regret. The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, called for a “thorough investigation,” said his spokesman Stephane Dujarric. Meanwhile, the United States ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, considered it “a reminder of the risks of irregular migration ” and the urgency of repairing a “broken immigration system,” according to a statement.
In recent years, the search for a new life in the United States has led many Latin American migrants, but also from other regions of the world, to try everything in their power to achieve it. But on their journey many have lost their lives.
According to the latest report from the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) published in November 2022, since 2014 more than 6,900 deaths have been documented during migration processes, mostly at the border crossing between the United States and Mexico and the Darién Gap, a journey of several days through the jungle on the border between Colombia and Panama.
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