Activists place candles on the ground during a protest outside a migration detention center in Ciudad Juarez, on the day Mexico’s former migration agency chief is due to issue a public apology over a 2023 fire at the facility that killed 40 migrants, Mexico, September 26, 2025. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's former immigration chief publicly apologized on Friday for a fire at a migrant detention center in the border city of Ciudad Juarez that killed 40 people and injured 27 others in 2023, part of a court order that allowed him to avoid prison time.
Speaking at the Museum of Mexico City in front of survivors of the fire and relatives of those who died, Francisco Garduno said he offered his "deepest apologies for the suffering and harm caused to you and your families, whose lives have changed forever."
