At least 10 people died after a fire broke out at a migrant camp in Mexico, near the US border.

At least 10 people have died in a fire at a migrant detention facility in northern Mexico, near the US border.

A fire broke out at the National Migration Institute (INM) in Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico. (Photo: Sky News)

While two local government sources told Reuters news agency that at least 10 people were killed, volunteer rescue workers said that up to 37 people had died in the fire.

Video footage from the scene of the refugee camp fire shows soldiers and firefighters helping to carry injured people to safety from inside a building at the National Migration Institute in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, near El Paso, Texas.

The fire occurred after US authorities earlier this month blocked hundreds of migrants, mostly Venezuelans, from entering the US from Mexico after a large number of them tried to pass Mexican soldiers at the border with the US.

Under a new asylum process put in place by President Joe Biden’s administration, asylum seekers must schedule meetings with U.S. officials in advance, but users say they have been unable to secure appointments on the U.S. government ’s app due to glitches and high traffic. This has led to families being separated at the border and not knowing when they will be reunited.

The US Department of Homeland Security confirmed that the app updates, called CBP One, will simplify and speed up the process.

Under the new rule, migrants who do not make an appointment at a U.S. port of entry or use humanitarian programs for certain nationalities will not be eligible for asylum, except in certain cases.

They must first seek protection in the countries they pass through in order to be able to apply for asylum once in the United States.

The move is aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration into the United States through these routes and mirrors similar efforts under former President Donald Trump that were blocked in court. But U.S. officials say it differs from Trump’s largely because it allows for exemptions and because it creates other legal avenues, notably humanitarian amnesty for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Ukraine.

According to VTV.vn

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