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Raquel Aldana, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity and Professor of Law, University of California, Davis

Migrant deaths in Mexico put spotlight on US policy that shifted immigration enforcement south

Mourners gather outside a detention center in Ciudad Juarez. David Peinado/picture alliance via Getty Images

The fire-related deaths of at least 39 migrants in a detention facility in Ciudad Juarez, just across the U.S. border with Mexico, will likely be found to have had several contributing factors.

There was the immediate cause of the blaze, the mattresses apparently set alight by desperate men in the center to protest their imminent deportation. And then there is the apparent role of guards, seen on video walking away from the blaze.

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