By Emily Green and Lizbeth Diaz

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s former immigration chief publicly apologized on Friday for a fire at a migrant detention center in the border city of Ciudad Juarez that killed 40 people and injured 27 others in 2023, part of a court order that allowed him to avoid prison time.

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 corrupt

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