Previously undisclosed security camera footage – as well as court documents and exclusive interviews with survivors – show a number of safety failures and oversights that created a death trap at a Juárez migrant detention center fire a year ago this month. Read our three-part series and watch exclusive videos in our binational/bilingual collaborative investigation by El Paso Matters, La Verdad and Lighthouse Reports.
Misplaced fire extinguishers. No sprinkler system. A key missing in plain sight. How a Juárez migrant detention center fire turned into a death trap.
Never-before seen video, documents and interviews detail how a March 2023 Juárez migrant detention center fire turned so fatal in this investigation by El Paso Matters, La Verdad and Lighthouse Reports.
Border experts: Immigration politics over humanitarian crisis sparked tragedy
The tragedy inside a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in March 2023 was sparked long before the deadly fire, border lawmakers and immigration experts say.
‘We’re not going to open it for them!’ What happened the night of the migrant detention center fire in Juárez?
An investigation by La Verdad in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports and El Paso Matters reveals new details – safety failures, abuses and oversights – about what occurred at the migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on March 27, 2023, that contributed to a deadly fire that killed 40.
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