The deadly fire at a migrant detention center in this border city across El Paso is renewing calls by immigrant advocates to improve asylum processes for...
“We are all responsible by omission, by indifference… because we have not done the right thing. I assume my responsibility,” but the government still must review its actions, he said.
CD. JUAREZ Chih. Paramedics work amid the covered bodies at the site where more than three dozen migrants have died in a fire that started in a dormitory at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juárez on Monday, March 27, 2023. The fire occurred when migrants set fire to mattresses in protest after learning they would be deported, according to the Mexican president. Foto: Luis Torres.
But that assumes the U.S. government has the staffing to vet the additional load, said another policy expert. Global migration is at unprecedented levels, and requires action by many governments, said Theresa Cardinal Brown, managing director of immigration and cross-border policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS, said the fire reflects the “dangerous and uncertain situation” faced by those seeking safety. The fire and other losses of life for migrants also reveal the “urgent need for safe and legal pathways for refugees and migrants.”Howard Campbell, a border anthropologist at the University of Texas at El Paso, has been following the humanitarian crisis for years and blames both the López Obrador administration and that of President Joe Biden.
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