The head of Mexico's immigration agency was arraigned on charges Tuesday that he failed in his responsibility to protect those in his custody when 40 migrants died in a fire at a border detention centre last month.
Federal prosecutors said that there are video recordings showing that private security guards in the facility had asked immigration agents permission to release the migrants when the fire started, but were denied.
A migrant allegedly started a fire inside the Ciudad Juarez detention centre March 27. Security cameras inside the facility showed smoke quickly filling the cell holding 68 male migrants, but no one with keys attempting to release them. The feeds for those cameras were streamed to a monitoring centre in Mexico City where officials noted problems with the private security company that Garduno was made aware of, but failed to rectify, prosecutors said.
Rodolfo Perez, Garduno's lawyer, told reporters that in the next hearing, he would show that Garduno had put changes in motion to support migrants and improve conditions in the agency's facilities. The turmoil in Mexico's immigration agency comes at a time when several thousand migrants are walking north from near the Guatemalan border in protest of the deadly fire and calling for Mexico to close its detention centres.
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