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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Mexico president assigns blame elsewhere for migrant tragedy

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Mexico’s president on Friday visited hospitals treating injured migrants in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, where 39 men died in a immigration detention center fire late Monday.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he was personally devastated by Monday’s tragedy. But it appears he will bring little new with him in the way of immigration policy during Friday’s visit to Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas.

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