The Secretary of the Interior of Mexico, Adán Augusto López, refused on Wednesday to request the dismissal of the director of the National Institute of Migration (INM), Francisco Garduño, after he the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) opened an investigation against him for the death of 40 people in an immigration station in the border Ciudad Juárez.
“The president (Andrés Manuel López Obrador) already said that we are aware that there is an investigation folder that is being integrated. Let’s wait for the result of the investigations that, by law, corresponds to the FGR ”, he stated this Wednesday when questioned by the media about the convenience of Garduño’s dismissal.
In a conference offered by the parliamentary group in the Congress of the pro-government National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the party to which it belongs, the Secretary of the Interior aligned himself with López Obrador, who hours before, in his daily press conference, said that he “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 that subjects him to a processWell, he is going to wait for the results of those investigations,” insisted the head of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), while urging that “the secrecy of the investigation” be kept.
However, he assured that this morning he had communication with Garduñowho shared a report about the situation in Ciudad Juárez (Chihuahua) “as he does every morning.”
Also questioned about the measures taken by the Executive after the fire that killed 40 migrants in the INM detention center, López 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 it 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 “incur in alleged criminal conduct, by failing to comply with their obligations to monitor, protect and provide security to the people and facilities under their chargepropitiating the crimes committed against migrants.”
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 El Salvador described it as a “State crime”.
According to Mexican civil organizations, 2022 was the most tragic year for migrants in Mexico, because some 900 died in the attempt to cross without documents from the country to the United States.
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