At least 39 people died in a fire at a Mexican migrant center near the U.S. border on Monday night.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador claimed that the fire was started as a "protest" by migrants who found out that they would be deported.
The fire occurred at a facility run by Mexico's National Migration Institute in Ciudad Juarez.
- A Guatemalan migration agency confirmed that at least 28 of those killed were Guatemalan nationals.
- López Obrador said that some Venezuelans were also in the shelter.
- At least 29 people were injured in the blaze.
In February, the Biden Administration implemented new immigration policies that made it more difficult for migrants who enter the U.S. via Mexico to claim asylum.
- U.S. border officials clashed with hundreds of mostly-Venezuelan migrants who broke through Mexican security lines near Ciudad Juarez earlier this month.
