Fatal fire complicates border city's tensions with migrants

Fatal fire complicates border city's tensions with migrants - Odessa American

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ The Associated Press CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico When Irwing López made it to Ciudad Juarez on the U.S.-Mexico border in January, the 35-year-old construction worker thought he had survived the worst and was steps away from his goal. He’d traversed jungle and raging rivers, and evaded Mexico’s notorious cartels, traveling thousands of miles from his native Venezuela. But then he found himself in a purgatory between U.S. immigration…

Fatal fire complicates border city's tensions with migrants

The deadly fire and accompanying attention have only added to the strained situation.

Fatal fire complicates border city's tensions with migrants

When Irwing López made it to Ciudad Juarez on the U.S.-Mexico border in January, the 35-year-old construction worker thought he had survived the worst and was steps away from his goal.

Fatal fire complicates border city’s tensions with migrants

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — When Irwing López made it to Ciudad Juarez on the U.S.-Mexico border in January, the 35-year-old construction worker thought he had survived the worst and was steps away from his goal. He’d traversed jungle and raging rivers, and evaded Mexico’s notorious cartels, traveling thousands of miles from his native Venezuela. But then he found himself in a purgatory between U.S. immigration policies that pushed him back to…

Fatal fire complicates border city's tensions with migrants

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- When Irwing Lopez made it to Ciudad Juarez on the U.S.-Mexico border in January, the 35-year-old construction worker thought he had survived the worst and was steps away from his goal.

Fatal fire complicates border city's tensions with migrants

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — When Irwing López made it to Ciudad Juarez on the U.S.-Mexico border in January, the 35-year-old construction worker thought he had survived the worst and […]