US-Mexico border crossing closed due to protests

FILE – The group of migrants protested for about two hours, without crossing the border, and then withdrew peacefully, reported the mayor’s office.

MEXICO CITY – Several hundred migrants held a protest on Monday at one of the border crossings between Ciudad Juárez, in Mexico, and El Paso, in the US, which led to the closure of the passage of vehicles in the place where tension still persists after the deadly fire with dozens of dead migrants that broke out two weeks ago in a detention center.

The incident occurred around 9:30 in the morning when some 300 migrants, mostly Central and South Americans, gathered around the Paso del Norte International Bridge to demand that the US authorities expedite immigration procedures, the office said. of communication of the mayor’s office of Ciudad Juárez.

almost a month ago a similar event was recorded on the same bridge when hundreds of migrants, encouraged by false rumors that they could cross into the United States, tried to enter en masse and were blocked by the US authorities who put up physical barriers at the border crossing in the face of “a potential threat of mass entry” said the CPB.

In a detention center of the National Institute of Migration of Ciudad Juárez, the night of March 27 was registered. a deadly fire who has left to date 40 deceased migrants and about twenty wounded, some of them still in serious condition.

In this case, a Mexican judge linked to the process last week five detainees, including three Immigration officials, a private security guard and a Venezuelan migrant, who face charges of homicide and injuries.