Eight employees or officials are being investigated for possible misconduct at a migrant detention center where a fire killed at least 39 detained men,...
in the northern border city of Ciudad Juárez boiled over as hundreds of migrants walked to a U.S. border gate hoping to make a mass crossing.
Five of those under investigation for possible misconduct are private security guards, two are federal immigration agents and one is a Chihuahua state officer, federal Public Safety Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez. said.The investigation has centered on the fact that guards appeared to make no effort to release the men — almost all from Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela and El Salvador — before smoke filled the room in a matter of seconds.
Venezuelan migrant Victoria Molina, 24, complained that “the app never gives us an date.”A group of about 50 migrants approached a Border Patrol vehicle and personnel and sat or kneeled on the ground. Later, about 25 migrants were led in single file through the gate into the U.S. and onto a white school-bus style vehicle that drove away.
Also Wednesday, Pope Francis offered prayers at the end of his general audience for those who died in the “tragic fire.” It was unclear if the two guards actually had the keys, but authorities suggested Wednesday that they should have gotten it or broken the lock — a highly difficult task, given the quick spread of smoke.U.S. authorities have offered to help treat some of the nearly 30 people who are hospitalized in critical or serious condition, most apparently from smoke inhalation.
The high level of frustration in Ciudad Juárez was already evident earlier this month when hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants tried to force their way across one of the international bridges to El Paso, acting on false rumors that the United States would allow them to enter the country. U.S. authorities blocked their attempts.
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