CBP ready to bring injured migrants from Juarez immigration detention center fire to US
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said they are prepared to receive and process some of the victims of the Juarez immigration detention center fire where 40 people died.
CBP officials said they are in communication with the El Paso Office of Emergency Management.
CBP officials said they will receive some of those who were injured in the fire and transport them by ambulance from Mexico to U.S. medical facilities for treatment.
Officials said CBP will parole individuals into the U.S. for emergency medical services.
As of Tuesday afternoon, there have not been any transports but crews are ready to help.
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Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said it was migrants who set fire to mattresses in the facility as a protest after learning they would be deported.
The incident happened Monday night.
A total of 40 people have died.
There were 68 men from Central and South America held in the facility at the time of the fire, the agency said. A Guatemalan official said many may have been from that Central American country.
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