US-Mexico Border Fire Update: Charges for Immigration Chief, Revealed | Latin Post [Video]

More details about the horrific migrant facility fire in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico that killed 40 migrants have emerged. Meanwhile, a very important immigration official just got charged for the incident.

The head of the Mexican Immigration Institute, Francisco Garduño, may have kept his job for now, thanks to a decision by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, but the federal Attorney General’s Office announced late Tuesday that the immigration official will also be charged in connection to the fire.

The Associated Press noted that this may have been because of the difficult position that Mexico is in right now, as the country faces pressure from the United States to slow northbound migration while the international community calls on them to treat migrants humanely and safely.

Garduño, a lawyer and criminologist before he took the job, started in June 2019 amid enormous pressure from the Trump administration to decrease the flow of immigrants. AMLO revealed during his daily press conference that Garduño had not offered …