There have been riots and protests at several Mexican detention facilities in recent months as overcrowding and abuse have turned the centers into powder kegs.
There are two sides to the U.S.-Mexico border, and the Mexican side isn’t much better than the American side when it comes to illegal immigration problems.
There have been riots and protests at several Mexican detention facilities in recent months as overcrowding and abuse have turned the immigration centers into powder kegs. On Monday, that keg exploded in a Ciudad Juarez detention center across the border from El Paso when inmates, informed they were being returned to their home countries, set fire to mattresses in protest. The fire killed at least 40 of the 68 men being held in the center.
Most of the dead were from Guatemala with others from Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador.
Tensions between authorities and migrants had apparently been running high in recent weeks in Ciudad Juarez, where shelters are full of people waiting for opportunities to cross into the U.S. or who have requested asylum there and are waiting out the process.
