The contracts in question partially pertain to Grupo de Seguridad Privada Camsa, SA de CV, the company tasked with monitoring the INM’s Ciudad Juárez where 40 migrants died in a fire back in March 2023
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Among the rescued were 19 unaccompanied minors, 12 families consisting of 28 individuals and 67 men and 16 women who were traveling on their own
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Numerous Mexican military officers have been appointed to high profile government positions and to head civilian functions across the first five years of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration
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A Mexican federal judge officially linked National Migration Institute Director Francisco Garduño as criminally responsible for the lethal INM facility fire that left 40 migrants dead last month
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Mexico’s Attorney General announced the opening of formal criminal proceedings against National Migration Institute Director Francisco Garduño for his role in the lethal March 27 fire in Ciudad Juárez
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New details have emerged clarifying what occurred the night of the incident, in addition to who is expected to be held responsible by the government – as well as perhaps who should be held culpable – for the deadly blaze
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) will take full control of immigration and customs tasks at the Mexico City International Airport (AICM) “in an effort to combat organized crime,” the director of the AICM, Carlos Velázquez Tiscareño, announced on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 4. In a press conference, Velázquez Tiscareño said that the Immigration Office at
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By MARK LORENZANA Former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro García Luna had allegedly accumulated illicit income of at least 27.3 million pesos during his time at the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) and the Federal Public Security Secretariat, as documented by Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR). The file on García Luna, imprisoned since 2019 in the United States, where he faces drug-trafficking charges, specifies that
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XINHUA A new caravan of about 500 migrants from Central and South American countries set off Monday, Aug. 22, from Mexico’s southernmost state of Chiapas with the aim of reaching the United States, local media reported. The caravan departed from Miguel Hidalgo Central Park in the city of Tapachula on the border with Guatemala, where many migrants have been stranded
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By MARK LORENZANA The deployment of federal forces in Mexico to contain the passage of migrants to the United States has increased by 294 percent in the 19 months since U.S. President Joe Biden began his term. As of May of this year, a total number of 28,971 Mexican soldiers, sailors and elements of the National Guard (GN) were deployed
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