March 27, 2024 / 08:48 PM
One year after the tragedy in which 40 migrants were burned to death in a detention center of the National Migration Institute (INM), in the border city of Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), the Catholic Church called for the country not to become a “cemetery for migrants and refugees.”
On Monday, March 27, 2023 at 10:00 pm (local time) caused a fire in the accommodation area of the Provincial Estancia of Ciudad Juárez, in the state of Chihuahua. According reports from the authorities, The incident left 40 people dead and twenty injured.
One year after the disaster, the Human Mobility Pastoral of the Mexican Episcopate Conference (CEM), led by Mons. Guadalupe Torres Campos, Bishop of Ciudad Juárez, shared a statement regretting that an immigration policy “based on containment, detention, deportation and militarization” continues.