Coverage dated April 21, 2023

Mexico migrant camp tents torched across border from Texas

Headline from KOB 4

Witnesses say makeshift tents were deliberately set ablaze in a large camp of migrants in Mexico across the border from South Texas this week. About 25 tents were destroyed in the fires Wednesday and Thursday in Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.

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  1. KOB 4

    Mexico migrant camp tents torched across border from Texas (opens KOB 4)

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    KOB 4's feed description

    Witnesses say makeshift tents were deliberately set ablaze in a large camp of migrants in Mexico across the border from South Texas this week. About 25 tents were destroyed in the fires Wednesday and Thursday in Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.

  2. New York Post

    Make-shift migrant tents set ablaze in Mexico border city (opens New York Post)

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    New York Post's feed description

    More than two dozen tents and flimsy lean-tos were set ablaze earlier this week in Matamoros, a Mexican city across the border from Brownsville, Texas.

  3. Los Angeles Times

    Tents torched at large migrant camp across the border from Texas (opens Los Angeles Times)

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    Los Angeles Times's feed description

    About two dozen tents are set ablaze at a migrant camp across the border from Texas, a sign of the extreme risk that comes with being stuck in Mexico.

  4. Delaware Public Media

    Mexico migrant camp tents have been torched across the border from Texas (opens Delaware Public Media)

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    Delaware Public Media's feed description

    The fires were set Wednesday and Thursday to about 25 makeshift tents at a camp of about 2,000 people, most of them from Venezuela, Haiti and Mexico, in Matamoros, Mexico, near Brownsville, Texas.

  5. Fox News

    Mexico migrant camp tents set ablaze across Texas border (opens Fox News)

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    Fox News's feed description

    Makeshift tents at a camp in Mexico holding some 2,000 migrants across the Texas border were set ablaze this week, though it is not clear who is responsible.

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