The Tragic Outcome of Failed Immigration Policies
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**Continued Loss of Life, This Time**

**in Juárez**
Good afternoon,

On March 27, a deadly blaze killed nearly 40 migrants and injured 30
others at an immigration processing center in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua,
Mexico, near the border with the United States. This happens to be the
same center that some of our Forum team visited in fall of 2021.
 According to reports
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migrants cried for help as they faced the blaze and billowing clouds of
smoke, but no one came to rescue them. Surveillance videos
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show the center's guards walking away during the fire leaving trapped
detainees in a locked cell.

This tragic loss of life highlights how decades of failed immigration
policies by the United States and Mexico have contributed
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to the "worst immigration-related tragedies in the history of modern
Mexico."

Responses by both American
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and Mexican
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officials to this loss of life have been disappointing
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Last year, 53 migrants
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were found dead
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in an abandoned tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas. And countless
migrants lose their lives on the way to their destination every day.
Officials on both sides of the border must find compassionate and humane
solutions to the broken immigration policies that contribute to these
terrible deaths.

Americans value
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offering refuge and welcome and agree
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that bipartisan efforts to achieve meaningful immigration reform are
urgently needed. In recent polling
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from the National Immigration Forum and the Bullfinch Group, 76% of
registered voters support Republicans and Democrats working together on
immigration reforms. Strengthening border security and preventing
tragedies such as the one in Ciudad Juárez, among other priorities, is
what the majority of Americans are asking for.

Officials on both sides of the aisle should listen to the American
people. Together, let's continue to advocate <[link removed]>
for better immigration policies that preserve our American values of
welcome, protecting both human rights and our communities.

Stay hopeful and committed,

Oula Alrifai

**Oula Alrifai**
Assistant Vice President of Field & Constituencies
National Immigration Forum 

**NEWS CLIPS TO NOTE:**

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**NPR:**A deadly Mexico immigration center fire shows just a sliver of
the abuse migrants see
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**BUSINESS INSIDER:**America needs immigration reform, or it risks
losing an entire generation of tech workers to countries like Canada,
the UK, and Japan
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**CBS NEWS:**Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas won't call
immigration at southern border a crisis
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**THE INQUIRER:**More buses from Texas? Philly ready to welcome
immigrants as pandemic bar drops.
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**WESH:**Activists rally across Florida to stop immigration bills
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