Victims of fatal immigration station fire remembered

Victims of fatal immigration station fire remembered

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Human rights activists gathered late Thursday in Juarez, Mexico, to remember the 40 victims of a fatal fire at an immigration station and to renew their call for justice two years after the fact. The March 27, 2023, blaze broke out after detainees burned mattresses inside a holding cell to pressure authorities to let them go. Toxic fumes quickly filled the building a few yards south of the Rio Grande; closed-circ…

Ricardo Del Muro / Austral The commissioner of the National Institute of Migration (INM), Francisco Garduño, interviewed by the newspaper La Jornada, said yesterday that it was marked by the fire at the migration station in Ciudad Juárez, where 40 migrants died two years ago. Garduño rejected the remarks of the organizations and legal representatives of the victims, who place him as responsible for the tragic event that occurred on March 27, 202…

Our Ciudad Juárez rekindled its candles, singing names and filling the air with white flowers, as well as choking cries of justice. The vigil organized this week in front of the immigration station of the National Institute of Migration (INM), in memory of the 40 migrants who died and the 27 injured in the fire of March 27, 2023, is not only an act of collective mourning; it is also an urgent call to the historical memory and legal responsibilit…

After two years of the fire in the Mexican government's immigration station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua state (north), which claimed the lives of 40 migrants, including seven Venezuelans, organizations, activists and citizens gathered on Thursday in a vigil to demand justice and remember the victims.In front of the migration station where the fatal events occurred, candles were lit and posters were placed with phrases such as: “The border is nec…

Mexico City Disinform ourselves. Two years after the fire in the detention center of the National Institute of Migration (INM) of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, family members, organizations and activists held a vigil to demand justice for the 40 migrants who died and the 42 people who survived, and to denounce the responsibility of the State and the authorities who “never opened the door” to the migrants when the disaster began on March 27, 2023.

The commissioner of the National Institute of Migration, Francisco Garduño Yañez, said that on Wednesday, April 16, he will offer the public apology to the victims and relatives of the fire that occurred two years ago at the migration station in Ciudad Juárez. According to what the INM published on its official social networks, the public apology will give on this border, after that on January 24, Judge Víctor Manlio Hernández Calderón imposed s…