What a Detention Center Fire in Mexico Tells Us About U.S. Immigration Policy

Forty men died and more than two dozen others were injured during a fire in an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in March 2023. It was one of the deadliest incidents involving immigrants in Mexico’s history.
Investigators put the blame for the incident on the migrants who set the blaze and the guards who failed to help them. The United States urged immigrants to take heed of the tragedy and pursue legal methods for entering the U.S., without acknowledging that some of those caught in the fire were attempting to do just that when they were detained.
However, an examination by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune underscores that the incident was the foreseen and foreseeable result of landmark shifts in U.S. border policies over the last decade, by which the Trump and Biden administrations put the bulk of the responsibility for detaining and deterring staggering numbers of immigrants from around the world onto a Mexican government that’s had trouble keeping its own people safe.
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📰: Perla Trevizo
📸: Paul Ratje for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune
🎥: Jose Sepulveda
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