More than two dozen tents and flimsy lean-tos were set ablaze earlier this week in Matamoros, a Mexican city across the border from Brownsville, Texas.
More than two dozen tents were set ablaze at a make-shift migrant camp in a Mexican border city this week as hundreds of people continue to mass at the border to cross into the US.
The 25 tents and lean-tos were ignited Wednesday and Thursday at the sprawling camp in Matamoros, south of the border from Brownsville, Texas, according to witnesses. The camp had been set up by mostly Venezuelan, Haitian, and Mexican migrants waiting to cross the border.It’s not clear who set the fires, but some advocates blamed criminal gangs that regularly, and others said that the arson may have been committed by some of the migrants themselves.
There were no reports of deaths or serious injuries, with the fires contained to a sparsely populated section of the camp that houses more than 2,000 asylum seekers, according to reports.“The people fled as their tents were burned,” said Gladys Cañas, who runs the migrant advocacy group Ayudandoles A Triunfar. “What they’re saying as part of their testimony is that they were told to leave from there.
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