Overview
- Families and rights groups held a vigil at the Juárez detention site and renewed demands for justice three years after the March 2023 fire.
- The case remains open with only four people in prison and seven others free during trial, and key questions persist about a lighter, the keys, and why men were not let out in time.
- Former INM chief Francisco Garduño remains accused while serving in the Education Ministry, and advocates seek his suspension to avoid any use of official leverage in his defense.
- Fifteen women who survived have not been recognized as victims by the state, which has kept them from full compensation and support.
- Civil groups say the tragedy stems from a detention-first migration policy and they call for full truth, impartial justice, total reparations, recognition of all affected people, and structural changes including ending migration detention.