"In 2024, a cross-border investigative report by El Paso Matters, La Verdad and Lighthouse Reports revealed new details highlighting a series of lapses in the detention center's security protocols. “Migrants detained by the National Migration Institute (INM) lacked food and water, were held in an overcrowded cell and were verbally abused and threatened with deportation,” the report stated.

The detention center was designed to accommodate a total of 60 people, but on the day of the fire it had a total of 90, including seven employees."

"The threat of family separation has worsened since the catastrophic fire at the migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez. Since the fire, authorities have stopped funding migrant shelters, leaving homeless migrant sex workers with nowhere to go." (Translated)

On the night of March 27, 2023, at Type B Temporary Detention Center in Ciudad Juárez, 40 male migrants from Guatemala, Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras and El Salvador were killed by asphyxiation as a result of a fire started by two Venezuelan migrants, according to investigations by Mexican authorities. One of the male migrants was an asylum seeker. 27 male migrants were injured (most with permanent physical and mental damage), and 15 female migrants survived. Leaked security videos leaked appeared to show smoke coming out of a cell and immigration agents fleeing without helping the locked migrants. "According to a report by the Juárez-based investigative newspaper La Verdad, only three of the eight officials charged with the deaths of the migrants face imprisonment; three of them were released on bail and another is on the loose."

The detention center was closed after the fire.