On Friday, Mexico’s former immigration chief issued a public apology for the 2023 fire at a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juarez that left 40 people dead and 27 injured. The statement was part of a court deal that spared him a prison sentence .

Speaking at the Museum of Mexico City in front of survivors of the fire and relatives of those who died, Francisco Garduno said he offered his “deepest apologies for the suffering and harm caused to you and your families, whose lives have changed forever.”

The rare apology marks part of a contentious resolution to one of the worst migrant tragedies in Mexican history. The fire in March 2023 garnered international headlines and shone a spotlight on longstanding allegations of corruption and inhumane conditions in Mexico’s migrant detenti

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