On the night of Monday, March 27, we received the news of a State crime through the Mexican media and socio-digital networks. Dozens of migrants of various origins and origins, but all men, died from a fire in one of the “migrant stays” of the National Institute of Migration (INM) of Mexico, located in Ciudad Juárez, a few meters from the River Bravo, on the border with the United States. Many other migrants are injured.
The first official reactions (from the hegemonic media, from the State, including the Mexican president himself) revolved around re-victimization, wanting to make migrants responsible for their own deaths by starting a riot, an act of protest against the confinement and the lack of drinking water.
Those of us who have been in the field and monitoring migrants, civil society organizations, activists, and defenders know that INM properties throughout Mexico are not “estancias” or “migration stations,” much less “shelters” or “shelters”. They are spaces of deprivation of liberty. What was not so clear, and is now evident, is that the means of deterring immigration involve torture, the pedagogy of cruelty, and state assassination. Indeed, these places of confinement are “torturing”, as revealed by defenders in that country several years ago.
The INM is a state apparatus coordinated by a former jailer. Since he took office at the beginning of 2019, he took charge of turning the territory of Mexico into a large militarized border. For this reason, we join the communities and organizations that demand the immediate dismissal of the INM Commissioner, Francisco Garduño Yáñez.
From the CLACSO Working Group Migrations and South-South Borders We join the organizations that have insisted on the use of alternatives to immigration detention in Mexico, and we demand the definitive closure of detention centers for migrants and refugees in Mexico. We have approached the defenders and with them, we demand from the Mexican authorities openness and non-intervention in the work of the organizations that carry out monitoring and documentation, as well as those that provide direct assistance to the affected families, on both sides. from the border
#wasthestate
#NoSonAlberguesSonCarceles
#WeUnEuphemism+
#ProteccionNoDetencion
#INAMI
#StateCrime
#Juarez City
March 30, 2023
CLACSO Working Group
Migrations and south-south borders [+]
This text expresses the position of the aforementioned Workgroup and not necessarily that of the centers and institutions that make up the international network of CLACSO, its Steering Committee or its Executive Secretariat.
