Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), March 30 (EFE).- A dozen agents of the National Institute of Migration (INM) protested this Thursday the arrest of three of their colleagues, who were arrested by the Mexican prosecutor’s office in the case of the products of 39 dead migrants. Fire at the immigration center in Ciudad Juarez on the border with the United States of America.
The demonstration came after Mexican authorities in Mexico City said five people had been arrested in connection with the migrants’ deaths, including three INM workers and two private security police.
The agents staged a demonstration at the headquarters of the Cordova-America International Bridge, which links Mexico to the United States, saying the detention of their colleagues was “unjustified.”
One of the agents who spoke in an irritated tone was Jesús Ignacio Molina Leyva, who told EFE that his colleagues “did what they could”.
He explained that a video circulating on social networks shows “one of his colleagues who took a fire extinguisher (to put out the fire) but it was not working properly and could not put out the fire.
He said he knows his colleagues and said “they are not inhumane, they are doing their job, which is what they are told to do by the migration law of the country”.
In addition, he noted that higher positions should also be tried.
“All commissioners are the first in prison, not us (agents) who are just doing our job,” he added.
The nonconformist recalled that there is a regulation that must be followed “The cowards are cowering there, it is he who must speak (referring to the head of the INM of Ciudad Juarez).”
This Thursday, in his daily conference, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador promised that there would be no impunity after the fire that killed the migrants, but avoided answering, unless the head of the National Institute of Migration (INM) Francisco Garduño. And if the private security company in charge of the immigration station is owned by the Nicaraguan consul.
The Mexican government’s scrutiny has increased since Monday’s fire at the INM migration station in Ciudad Juárez, on the border with the United States, where about 70 migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela were being held for deportation. .
Leaked security videos showed desperate agents as detained migrants begged them to open the door, with victims’ compatriots denouncing the tragedy as “could have been avoided”.
López Obrador also avoided the resignation of INM head Garduño Yáñez, despite demands from the opposition and human rights activists.
The Secretary of State for Security and Civil Protection (SSPC) announced on Wednesday that it had identified eight alleged perpetrators of the fire, including two federal agents, a state immigration agent and five agents from a private security company.
Source: El Diario
