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Fire and riot/ Migrants clash with police in Mexico

2025-01-18 21:50:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Fire and riot/ Migrants clash with police in Mexico

Migrants trying to avoid arrest set fire to blankets and mattresses at a camp in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua during a raid by government forces to clear the site in the early hours of Saturday.

The enforcement actions near the US border come just ahead of Monday's inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, who has accused Mexico's government of not doing enough to curb migration to the US and threatened high fines.

About 250 Mexican officials, including National Guard military police, surrounded the camp around midnight.

Fire and riot/ Migrants clash with police in Mexico

The migrants began setting fire to mattresses and blankets in protest, and tried to flee the country carrying babies and belongings. There were no reports of deaths or injuries from the fire, which was extinguished in less than an hour.

Many among the 150 migrants were Venezuelan families who had stopped at the camp in Chihuahua city, about 220 miles (360 km) from the border city of Ciudad Juarez across from El Paso, Texas, as they headed north to the US. /CNA





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