Ciudad Juárez.- Manuel Alfonso Marín Salazar was appointed today as the new head of the National Institute of Migration (INM) in Chihuahua, the federal government announced this afternoon.
Through a press release it was reported that on behalf of the commissioner, Francisco Garduño Yáñez, it was the general director of Coordination of Representation Offices, Héctor Martínez Castuera, who appointed the new head of the Representation Office in the state of Chihuahua.
It was said that “by taking the legal protest, Martínez Castuera urged Marín Salazar to maintain attention and dedication to service, as well as a humanist vision in favor of foreigners who enter, transit and leave national territory”; while Marín Salazar, endorsed his commitment to an action attached to the respect and safeguarding of the law, as well as the rights of migrants in the context of mobility.
Marín Salazar served as head of the INM Representation Office in Baja California from July 2019 to May 2023; as federal sub-delegate from December 2016 to March 2019 and as local INM delegate in that entity from September 2013 to December 2016.
Rear Admiral Salvador González Guerrero, who was the head of the Institute in Chihuahua, was arrested and linked to the process after the fire that occurred on March 27, 2023 at the provisional stay on this border, where 40 people died and 28 more were injured.
