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39 Dead After Fire Breaks Out at Migrant Detention Center in Juarez

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0:00 thank you [Music] in Mexico there's a Detention Center where they hold people that are traveling from like Central America upwards you mean like it's like the the like you're not from around here are you you gotta get rounded up I think it's in Center no it's kind of like where uh where you end up being held when you're let's say you you want to claim Asylum or you want to like uh migrate North you pass through we get processed they gotta vet who you are oh like a refugee situation like that yeah yeah I see okay so um it's kind of like it's I'm guessing it's sort of like in Scarface in the beginning so they end up in these processing centers uh for for a pretty long time sometimes and then sometimes they just end up getting deported back other times

0:51 they get granted entry um and for some reason one of the migrants in there started a fire inside the detention center by like lighting up the mattresses God damn it was he trying to do a barbecue or something that's usually how you do a barbecue light up a mattress inside a Detention Center so the um so the fire started and usually like um the staff of the Detention Center supposed to open the doors when that happens because there's no other way out they didn't do that and 39 people died oh 39. yeah all of them migrants yeah what did they do were they like oh well we can't afford letting them loose into our society so they're just left they're just what do we do I it's kind of weird because at first I was like yeah are they supposed to just like is it really just let them out or not but apparently they're now being charged

1:41 some of those murder that are the stuff that we're supposed to act at that moment are being charged as well that's like a second degree murder as well as the person that started the fire yeah with the guy that started the fire he's alive yeah what a ████ scumbag it starts a fire and runs wait wait was the guy who started fire one of the people that was supposed to be held in detention yeah so do you think how did he get out there yeah how do you survive I don't know that's crazy were there people that were like working at the Detention Center that got harmed too or is it just 39 people that died were migrants there are people that did get hurt I think there's like 17 or 18 people that have injuries but in the moment like jiggling their keys like who's got the key and then they're trying to get the right team that's kind of not that but it does explain that uh they were like

2:32 stupid it does explain that there were like a couple guards in front of the door just kind of running back and forth not knowing panicking kind of a deal that's one of my biggest fears is like freezing like I know there's so many stupid people that like have responsibility right yeah so like when it comes to like the system like like the government or or people who's in charge of law enforcement you better ████ hope the person that's processing you or whatever has common sense or has a quick wit or whatever because if you got a dumbass this thing's like these kind of thing happen or if you got keys like this oh holy ████ you'll be a genius and that's like solving a ████ Rubik's Cube this is Ryan's Keys we have been wondering for a long time what the ████ is all this for I'll I'll explain them and he reduced it

3:22 he used to have more I have way more used to look like a high school janitor's key set yeah it looks like that looks like a public school district Key set that's it's crazy that the guy who started the fire still made it out like I I could understand if it's like maybe that guy knew the rules like well I can't get out of the Detention Center so if I start a fire they by law or by code they have to open the doors or something like that but the idea that like they couldn't open the doors and 39 other people died but he still somehow got out yeah how come no one follows suit or like yeah don't even lock the door behind him no that's the thing like I don't know how the building floor plan was but I it doesn't say that everybody in the building died so like maybe just those 39 people just happen to be the ones that stuff died of smoking smoke inhalation when I think of detention centers though it to me it just sounds like it looks like jail like there's cages there's just like lobsters

4:14 on the floor everywhere yeah I've seen those things it was highly politicized a couple years back yeah all those yeah even in the beginning of Scarface he started a fire to try to do that because they have to do like quick little background checks right to see if like all you guys cartel are you kidnapped are you whatever like are you are you who you say you are are you a fugitive and then they have to go through all the the checks and stuff and then you know bring them through so full that kids are taking turns like sleeping on the ground because there's no room damn ████ jeez yeah isn't there like some crazy ████ going on right now where um there's a lot of migrants coming through Mexico El Paso right where they storm the uh and they're not Mexican they're like Central American or whatever Honduran

5:04 yeah yeah and then just ran through it was like a couple thousand of them yeah but then again it wasn't all at one time yeah they just bomb rushed crazy videos of just them storming through the capital uh the capital sorry guys I've just been watching some videos back to your old experience exactly they storm through the gates and they just ran through yeah yeah I saw that you know what's interesting to me is like so from 80s 90s and on right I remember all of these presidential speeches were like uh you know there's a place for refugees like like after the Vietnam War they had so many like camps set up bringing people in um you know Central America all that stuff they would constantly bring people and bring and then they had this different kind of model now on both ends of the spectrum right

5:55 or left they're saying don't come and I'm just like that's so weird like when uh the vice president um when she made a speech about don't come I was like it was crazy when Democrats are saying don't come what the ████ is happening that means they're in charge again so now they have to say don't come and then when Republicans are in charge they have to say don't come so it's whoever's not in charge they get to scrutinize and say what you could you have the best plan and once we're in we'll do it differently and they just do the same ████ every time because Republicans they always had the model of like oh we're good Christians we have to let them in and then Democrats were more like oh we gotta let them in because like whatever humanitarian right so they both had their own reasons to let them in but they also have their own reasons to not let them up and it's so ████ what like what's the right one yeah I mean in the grander scheme isn't letting

6:47 more people coming in um higher potential for a growing economy it's close to me theoretically yeah theoretically but then there's also so in the past I believe most people were that were coming in um assimilated much easier because before there weren't um it wasn't like the culture and education was so freaking different that when they came to the states it was so much harder to integrate them but now it's like different people from different countries are it's not the same countries like it's not like people from Japan Vietnam um you know European Eastern European or whatever it's whole a whole new different group and I think we're facing a whole different set of like these cultural clashes challenges yeah

7:37 yeah but it's also politicized that's the part that sucks because it's like right you watched Bill Clinton in the 90s and he's like we gotta Tamp down on immigration you watch George W he says the same ████ yeah you watch Obama he says the same ████ Trump said the same ████ so the same she didn't let any of the refugees that were running from the Middle East come Obama deported more people than Trump did like but it's all the same like unit party ████ we all are aware of it but then everyone in politics in like political season then they make it all these big issues but then they don't do anything about it but there'll be random moments when they do open up the gates though that's the weird thing is like why is it that some situations they'll be like give me your tired poor sick and hungry or whatever yeah if there's cameras there or if there's votes to be won yeah it could be AOC or outside those cages

8:27 remember that oh yeah wearing all white doing the the farce photo shoot that she had too if you're gonna like cry like why you gotta put your arm up like this ████ it was wild she did a photo shoot take but I actually think like there's probably a flow that they have to figure like we need about 10 million more people all right let's let them in and then cut it and then we're like let's see what happens and they're like oh we need more like five five million more and then they bring them in there's also the whole thing about like preferred people that they want in here yeah you know what I mean like Indian Engineers well the ultimate said CEOs yeah the ultimate cynical and maybe even realistic is like we know big businesses like Tyson's Chicken all this stuff want like very cheap labor yeah we just did a story about that remember and they can

9:18 use you know their immigration status against them if they try to get raises and ████ like that yeah it's just totally exploitative well I think they want migrant workers temporarily they don't want citizens because the difference is citizens are entitled to certain better rights you can get uh vacation workers from different countries to work our factories or whatever whatever just keep rotating them out well yeah it's like what's a union yeah exactly yeah so it might be like those reasons there's so many different reasons like the only reason why the U.S is still a profitable Western Nation because we don't have a population decline like the way that a lot of European countries are yeah so but the crazy thing too is like you know the Green Card Lottery do you guys know about that so like certain countries

10:10 they you could sign up for this Lottery system where you basically submit your name and there's a chance that you'll just randomly get a green card to the United States yeah wow for some freaking reason that happened to my buddies yeah I've never heard of it for uh like anyone Asian but like smack got that and so did like three of her friends really whoa are they all Australian yeah so it's kind of like it's a lottery is it really a lottery or are they just kind of like hey we want these ones and maybe not so much these ones of course it's not a lottery when the ████ did we ever think ████ was actually the way it was it was so cynical that's so true it is a it is a hard subject though man because like it's like we're all I mean it's a nation of immigrants right and then like gatekeeping that and uh and also saying like which ones will shine and which

11:02 ones won't right you know like how would you ████ know yeah because in every wave of immigration from poor groups right there's gonna be like criminal Enterprises that come along oh I'm not sure that happened with Irish that happened with like Jewish that happened with Italian yeah and then now like they're integrated and Americanized to the point where like they're not looked upon as the poor population with criminal Enterprises right there's like now they're like so American now they're judging other immigrants that are coming in when they used to be not considered white right so then every era I think we're gonna have these like oh no we're more American than you whereas like dude that's so stupid because your ancestors were also like being treated like you weren't as American yeah that's the

11:52 cycle it's the cycle yeah it's like with gangs in New York yeah like they call themselves the natives but they were just a few Generations away from the other guys right yeah and I think that's why a good movie though it's a great movie [Music]

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