Mexican government refuses to dismiss the head of Immigration despite investigation

The Secretary of the Interior of Mexico, Adam Augusto Lopezrejected this Wednesday to request the dismissal of the director of the Migration’s national institute (INM), Francisco GardunoAfter the General Prosecutor of the Republic (FGR) open an investigation against him for the death of 40 people in an immigration station on the border Juarez City.

“Already Mr. President (Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador) said that we are aware that there is a research folder that is being integrated. Let’s wait for the result of the investigations that, by law, corresponds to the FGR”, he exposed this Wednesday when questioned about the convenience of Garduño’s dismissal by the media.

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In a conference offered by the parliamentary group in the Congress of the official National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the party to which he belongs, the Secretary of the Interior aligned himself with López Obrador, who hours before, in his daily press conference, said that “will wait” to advance the investigation to decide on the future of Garduño.

“And the president informed this morning that as long as there is no legal provision that disqualifies him or subjects him to a process, well, he is going to wait for the results of those investigations.”, insisted the head of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), while urging that it be saved “the secrecy of the investigation”.

However, he assured that this morning he had communication with Garduño, who shared a report about the situation in Juarez City (Chihuahua) “like he does every morning”.

Also questioned about the measures taken by the Executive after the fire that killed 40 migrants in the detention center INMLópez limited himself to saying that the person responsible for communicating this type of thing is the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Icela Rodriguez.

“I cannot tell you because, I repeat, the authorized voice is the secretary”, he excused himself.

His statements come after the FGR announced that “will proceed criminally” against the director of the INM, an institution that depends on the Segob, for the fire.

The FGR accused Garduño and another high INM official of “incurring in alleged criminal behaviors, by failing to comply with their obligations to monitor, protect and provide security to the people and facilities under their charge, promoting crimes committed against migrants”.

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He also explained that in the actions of the INM directors, he has identified “a pattern of conduct in which the security measures that were essential and mandatory in these cases have been omitted by those responsible”.

After the event in which 6 Hondurans, 7 Salvadorans, 19 Guatemalans, 7 Venezuelans and one Colombian died, the Government of The Savior He called it a “state crime”.

According to Mexican civil organizations, 2022 was the most tragic year for migrants in Mexicosince some 900 died in the attempt to cross without documents from the country to USA.

Source: Elcomercio

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