Eduard Caraballo screamed for help.
Officials blamed the fire on a migrant who allegedly set mattresses alight to protest their imminent deportation.
Mexico's National Migration Institute, which ran the center in the border town of Ciudad Juarez, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Caraballo's account. "They pulled me by the hand, I think it was a firefighter, and they helped me out, others were already dead," he said, crying. Like millions of others, Caraballo and his family fled Venezuela's economic and political crisis, setting off for the United States last October.
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