A judge has ordered the head of Mexico’s immigration agency to stand trial on charges that he failed in his responsibility to protect those in his custody when 40 migrants died in a fire at a border detention center in March.
The head of Mexico's National Migration Institute, Francisco Garduo, front, arrives at court in Ciudad Jurez, Mexico, Sunday, April 30, 2023. Garduo is part of an investigation into a fire at a detention center in March that killed 40 migrants and is accused of failing in his responsibility to protect migrants.
“I will keep working … until ordered otherwise”, Garduño told media late Sunday as he left the court in the border town of Ciudad Juárez. The judge denied the prosecutors’ request that Garduño be removed from his position. He will have to present himself to the court every two weeks. A migrant allegedly started a fire inside the Ciudad Juarez detention center on March 27. Security cameras inside the facility showed smoke quickly filling the cell holding 68 male migrants, but no one with keys attempted to rescue them. In addition to the 40 killed, more than two dozen were injured in the fire.
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