Fire breaks out at Ciudad Juarez, Mexico immigration detention center, 39 people dead, 29 injured
Natalie Ross
Published Feb 03, 2026
A fire broke out at a migration confinement focus in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late on Monday
It killed something like 39 individuals and harmed 29 others
A considerable lot of the casualties were Venezuelan travelers and shelter searchers
A fire broke out at a migration confinement focus in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late on Monday killing something like 39 individuals and harming 29 others. A considerable lot of the casualties were Venezuelan travelers and shelter searchers. Specialists are exploring the reason for the blast.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico said in a morning public interview that the fire was the consequence of a dissent by individuals being held in the office. Obviously, transients put a match to sleeping cushions in fight in the wake of finding they would be expelled. “They didn’t imagine that would cause this horrendous misfortune,” Lopez Obrador told a news gathering.
The fire began at around 10 p.m. on Monday night at the Instituto Nacional de Migración, Mexico’s Organization of Movement said. The office housed 68 men from Focal and South America at the hour of the fire, authorities said.
BREAKING: Mexico’s president says a fire at a Mexican immigration facility at the U.S. border that killed 39 migrants was started by migrants who set mattresses ablaze in protest after learning they would be deported.
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 28, 2023
Casualties were moved to four nearby clinics, specialists said. The individuals who died included travelers from Guatemala and Honduras, a Mexican authority told Reuters.
The beginning of the fire is being scrutinized. It has by and by been smothered. “I was here since one PM sitting tight for the dad of my youngsters, and when 10 p.m. moved around, smoke began emerging from all over,” said 31-year-old Viangly Infante, a Venezuelan public.
Lately, there has been a development of transients in Mexican line urban communities. Specialists are endeavoring to deal with shelter demands utilizing another U.S. government application known as CBP One. As indicated by numerous transients, the interaction has turned into a broad one. Recently many for the most part Venezuelan travelers got into a fight with U.S. authorities at the line as they vented their dissatisfaction at the defers the cycle is causing in the framework.