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A Venezuelan girl attends a candlelight vigil Tuesday for victims of this week’s fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Mexican authorities said Wednesday that the deaths of 39 men in a fire inside an immigrant detention center here are being investigated as homicides and that they were planning to arrest eight guards. The fire, the deadliest …
Emergency crews outside an immigration center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where a fire killed at least 38 people. It was the deadliest incident in recent memory at Mexico’s notoriously crowded immigration holding centers and another reminder of the many perils faced by migrants trying to reach the United States. “It’s not like these incidents just happen out of thin air,” …
EL PASO, Texas — Francisco Palacios waited for four hours with his wife and 3-year-old daughter at a border crossing between Tijuana and San Diego early Wednesday before going to a nearby hotel for a three-hour nap. “I want them to decide” on the public health rule known as Title 42, said Morey, who arrived six weeks ago in the …
EL PASO, Texas — Along the U.S. southern border, two cities — El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez in Mexico — prepared Sunday for a surge of as many as 5,000 new migrants a day as pandemic-era immigration restrictions expire this week, setting in motion plans for emergency housing, food and other essentials. El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego told …
