Migrant facility fire in Mexico leaves at least 39 dead, dozens hurt | Works24

At least 39 migrants are dead and 29 injured after a fire broke out at an immigration processing center in northern Mexico.

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The fire broke out when migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze late Monday at the National Immigration Institute (INM), a facility in Ciudad Juarez, which sits south of El Paso, Texas, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said.

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. or who have requested asylum there and are waiting out the process.
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