A man from El Salvador describes inhumane treatment by Mexican authorities leading up to the deadly fire at a migration detention in Mexico in March.
Hundreds of migrants go to a Mexican migration office seeking information about victims of a fire inside a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on March 28.Hundreds of migrants go to a Mexican migration office seeking information about victims of a fire inside a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on March 28.MEXICO CITY — Just a few feet away from the U.S. border, inside the crammed cell of a makeshift jail, something terrible was building.
involving migrants near the Mexico-U.S. border: On March 28, a fire at the Ciudad Juárez migrant detention center killed 40 people and injured 27. This man's account of what happened in the crowded facility, and his experiences that followed, depicts inhumane treatment by the National Migration Institute, Mexico's migration enforcement arm. And experts say the agency has failed to reform abusive practices.
After making their way through Central America and Mexico, they crossed into the United States illegally early in the hours of March 27. But the migrant says Having blacked out during the fire, the Salvadoran migrant eventually woke up confused under bright lights. He couldn't move. There was a tube down his throat.
"It was migration agents driving me everywhere, in the same" armored vans used to transport detained migrants, he says. "What's happening with the Ciudad Juárez survivors is very unusual," says Lorena Cano, a lawyer with the nonprofit Women in Migration Institute. The group represents migrants who have been victims of crimes.
Instead, the National Migration Institute has unofficially taken control of the victims and survivors' families. According to Cano and other human rights lawyers consulted by NPR, there has never been a case of the agency"It is traumatizing for victims to have to face every day the institution that left them locked in the cell to die," she says.
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