“This had to do with a protest that they started,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Tuesday morning.
was set by migrants out of deportation fears — as tensions reached a boiling point with Mexican immigration officials Monday night, according to Mexico’s president.
“This had to do with a protest that they started,” he explained. “We assume that they found out that they were going to be deported, mobilized and as a protest at the door of the shelter they put up mattresses and set them on fire and they did not imagine that this was going to cause this terrible disgrace.”
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