Thousands of migrants march through Mexico to protest detention centers

About 3,000 migrants are marching through Mexico to protest detention centers after 40 migrants died in a fire last month in one.

The group, which started its march Sunday in southern Mexico, said its goal is to reach Mexico City to demand better treatment for migrants, but many similar caravans have continued the trek to the U.S. border, according to The Associated Press.

"It could well have been any of us," Miriam Argueta, a Salvadoran migrant, said about the people who perished in the fire. "In fact, a lot of our countrymen died. The only thing we are asking for is justice, and to be treated like anyone else."

Most of the migrants in the group are from Central America, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador.

Argueta also said that when the migrants looked for work in southern Mexico, they were offered difficult jobs. 

"They give us jobs, perhaps not humiliating, but the one the Mexicans don’t want to do, hard work that pays very little," she said.

Protest organizer Ireneo Mujica said the migrants are demanding for Mexico's immigration agency to dissolve over the deadly fire last month. Six officials with Mexico's National Immigration Institute are facing homicide charges over the fire.

Madeleine Hubbard is an international correspondent for Just the News. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram.