Migrant deaths in Mexico put spotlight on US policy that shifted immigration enforcement south
- Written by Raquel Aldana, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity and Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
Mourners gather outside a detention center in Ciudad Juarez.David Peinado/picture alliance via Getty ImagesThe fire-related deaths of at least 39 migrants in a detention facility in Ciudad Juarez, just across the U.S. border with Mexico, will likely be found to have had several contributing factors.
There was the immediate cause of the blaze, the...