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Al Jazeera
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Ali Harb, Jillian Kestler-D'Amours

US bears ‘moral weight’ of Mexico migrant tragedy: Advocates

Mexican authorities and firefighters remove injured migrants from the National Migration Institute (INM) facility after a fire, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, March 27 [Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters]

Washington, DC – The deaths of at least 38 people in a fire at an immigrant detention facility in northern Mexico has renewed criticism of United States policies that make it more difficult for people to seek protection at the US-Mexico border.

The blaze on Monday night in Ciudad Juarez, a border city across from El Paso, Texas, comes amid months of escalating US border restrictions that advocates have said directly contributed to the tragedy.

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