![]() ![]() More than 30 migrant shelters and other advocacy organizations published an open letter March 9 that complained of a criminalization of migrants and asylum seekers in the city. Tensions between authorities and migrants had apparently been running high in recent weeks in Ciudad Juarez, where shelters are full of people waiting for opportunities to cross into the U.S. Three hours later, the women and children were released. Suddenly agents came and detained everyone.Įveryone was taken to the immigration facility but only the men were placed in the cells. “I was at a stoplight with a piece of cardboard asking for what I needed for my children, and people were helping me with food,” she said. They were staying in a rented room where 10 people were living, paying for it with the money they begged in the street. They had been in Juarez waiting for an appointment from U.S. ![]() Márquez and Maldonado were detained Monday with the children and about 20 others. “How could they not get them out?”Īuthorities did not immediately answer that question, but López Obrador had said the migrants piled the mattresses in a doorway. ![]() She wondered how all the guards who were inside made it out alive and only the migrants died. “We want to know if he is alive or if he’s dead,” she said. Katiuska Márquez, a 23-year-old Venezuelan woman with her two children, ages 2 and 4, was seeking her half-brother, Orlando Maldonado, who had been traveling with her. “I was desperate because I saw a dead body, a body, a body, and I didn’t see him anywhere.”Įarlier, about 100 migrants gathered Tuesday outside the immigration facility’s doors to demand information about relatives. She saw several dead bodies before finding her husband in an ambulance. “The men, they never took them out until the firefighters arrived.” The ones they let out were the women, and those (employees) with immigration,” she said. The previous evening, she was waiting outside the detention center for his release when the fire broke out. with her husband and three children, waited for her husband, who was being treated for smoke inhalation. The detention facility is across the street from Juarez’s city hall.Īt a nearby hospital, Viangly Infante Padrón, a 27-year-old Venezuelan migrant seeking asylum in the U.S. ![]()
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