Head of Mexico’s Immigration Agency Under Criminal Investigation
April 12, 2023 5:47 AM
VOA News
The office of Mexico’s attorney general says it has launched a criminal investigation into the head of the country’s immigration agency in connection with last month’s deadly fire at an immigrant detention facility.
A statement released late Tuesday night said National Immigration Institute (INM) chief Francisco Garduno failed to take steps to prevent the fire at the agency’s facility in the city of Ciudad Juarez that killed 40 migrants on March 27.
The attorney general’s office says the agency knew about problems at migrant detention facilities after a migrant was killed in a fire at another detention center in 2020.
Several other high-ranking officials of the INM are also under criminal investigation, but the statement did not specify what charges they are facing.
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