On the site, the president of the Ángeles Mensajeros Collective, Carlos Mayorga, who was the organizer of this act, said that the representation seeks to create awareness among the general population.
Courtesy | During the tour different refugees carried the cross, representing Jesus
A hundred migrants staged a Via Crucis this Sunday with which they walked along the limits of the Rio Grande (Rio Grande in the United States) as a tribute to the 39 migrants killed by a fire at the Mexican government immigration station in Ciudad Juárez and to demand justice and a memorial to the authorities.
The migrants, mostly Venezuelans who remain stranded in this border city, participated in the representation of the crucifixion of Christ, walked in a caravan, in many cases they took off their shoes to walk barefoot and even reached the facilities of the National Institute of Migration. (INM), place where the tragedy occurred.
On the site, the president of the Ángeles Mensajeros Collective, Carlos Mayorga, who was the organizer of this act, said that the representation seeks to create awareness among the general population.
“We have named this Way of the Cross: ‘Put yourself in my shoes’ and what it seeks is to create awareness in the community in general, that the only thing migrants do is look for a place to work,” he explained.
“The fact of taking off our shoes is for the community to put themselves in our shoes and understand that they are not here for fun,” he added.
In addition, the activist called on the federal authorities to destroy the government building and create a memorial for the events that occurred last Monday night.
On the night of March 27, a fire in a migration center in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, northern Mexico, killed 39 people, of whom 6 were Hondurans, 7 Salvadorans, 18 Guatemalans, 1 Colombian, and 7 Venezuelans.
In addition to the deceased, the accident left 28 injured, of which 24 remain hospitalized and only 4 have been discharged so far. There were about 70 migrants at the immigration station.
On Friday, the Government ordered the closure of the center and the Mexican Prosecutor’s Office arrested five people who are in pretrial detention, three INM officials and two agents from the private security company that operated the immigration station.
During the tour different refugees carried the cross, representing Jesus, one of them, who preferred anonymity, said that a relative of his died in the place.
Migrants of different nationalities, protest with Stations of the Cross, against the migration policy of @lopezobrador_ and the harassment of the municipal police of Cd. Juárez sent to arrest them, “for anything” by the racist mayor morenista @CruzPerzCuellar support” @INAMI_mx pic.twitter.com/F0A28TfXhB
—Luis Cardona (@cardonamex) April 2, 2023
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