As images of the devastating blaze at an immigration detention center in Mexico consume news broadcasts and social media, families scattered across the...
Families scattered across the Americas are suffering the consequences of the fire, dealing with agony as they await news of their loved ones
“This shouldn’t be able to happen. are people, they are humans,” López said, her voice shaking. “What I ask for is justice. They aren’t animals and can’t be treated as such.”, including a migrant, who may have started it.When López’s husband, Bacilio Sutuj Saravia, departed on his journey north in mid-March, he told her he was going to Mexico for tourism.
In the rolling coffee-dotted mountains of western Honduras, the three families horrified by the surveillance video are awaiting confirmation of the fates of their sons. The three friends had set out together for the United States from their small town of Proteccion. Like many in the rural area, the men planned to work and send money back to support their families.
Their concern is matched by anger from watching guards run away from growing flames and thickening smoke rapidly encapsulating migrants. She and her brother Stefan Arango Morillo, both single parents, migrated from their northern Venezuelan city of Maracaibo in February, leaving behind three young children between them with their mother in hopes of claiming asylum in the U.S.
Stefany, searched desperately for her 32-year-old brother, fearing the worst when she received a text from his phone inside a private hospital. He was alive, but his injuries from smoke inhalation made it nearly impossible for him to talk.
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