He died twice after the Juárez migrant center fire. Now he’s searching for life’s meaning.

He died twice after the Juárez migrant center fire. Now he’s searching for life’s meaning.

Wilson Alexander Juárez Hernández died twice – his heart stopping for about five minutes in an ambulance and later for eight minutes in a hospital emergency room. He was brought back to life each time.He sometimes questions if he’d be better off dead. The past two years, he’s had to relearn how to eat, walk and talk. His arms and legs don’t work like they used to. His speech is strained and slurred, every breath between words a battle.The physic…

Mexico City. “It’s been two years, but it’s like it was yesterday. Time goes by but the pain is still intact,” says one of the migrants who survived the fire in the provisional immigration stay in Ciudad Juárez on March 27, 2023. That tragedy left serious sequelae in his person: he has difficulty talking about the amount of smoke he inhaled and had third-degree burns that left much of his body marked. For hours the doctors tried to save his left…

Two years have passed since the fire recorded inside the Lerdo-Stanton immigration station of the National Institute of Migration (INM) in Ciudad Juárez. It was on March 27, 2023 that this incident occurred, which caught the attention of hundreds of people. The fire originated inside the cells of this place where migrants were located. Some had been detained by INM agents a few days ago, and others had only a few hours of being guarded. Related …

Two years after the fire that broke with the death of 40 migrants in Ciudad Juárez, the families of the victims asked President Claudia Sheinbaum for justice and that there be no impunity for those responsible. Through a letter, relatives of the deceased and survivors of the incident that occurred during a stay at the National Institute of Migration (Inami) in the border town sent a letter to the president and prosecutor Alejandro Gertz Manero i…

In March 2023, in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, a fire in the facilities of the National Institute of Migration left 40 migrants dead and two dozen injured for improper public service; but, where is the person responsible? Impunity in the midst of the tragedy of the National Institute of Migration The commissioner of the National Institute of Migration, Francisco Garduño, was linked to the process for what happened; however, he mentions his defense …

Two years after the burning of the immigration stay in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Francisco Garduño, Commissioner of the National Institute of Migration, still does not repair anyone, said lawyer Lorena Cano Padilla, legal coordinator of the Institute for Women in Migration (IMUMi). Also, the commissioner received a conditional suspension of the criminal proceedings, because the judge considered that Garduño already fulfilled the full reparation …