A 39 -year -old Mexican died in California when he was in custody of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) of the United States, the agency reported on Tuesday, which faces a demand for the lack of adequate medical care provided to the detainees, among other complaints.
Ismael Ayala-Uribe died on Monday, September 22 at the Victor Valley Global Medical Center in Victorville, located in the Northeast of Los Angeles, ICE detailed in a statement.
The immigrant was detained at the ICE processing center in the Californian town of Advance and was transferred on September 21 to the medical facilities for “a more exhaustive evaluation” of an abscess in the buttock, after which surgery was scheduled to treat it.
In the early hours of September 22, Ayala-Uibe was found unconscious and was declared dead.
The causes of death have not yet been revealed but are being investigated; ICE said that Ayala also presented abnormal hypertension and tachycardia.
ICE faces several judicial processes due to the lack of necessary medical care provided to detainees.
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The ICE processing center in advance was practically unoccupied, after the order of a federal judge to free immigrants, due to the unhealthy conditions to which they were subjected during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ayala was arrested on August 17 at Orange County and transferred to advance on August 22 for his migratory process.
Ayala’s death adds to that of Honduran Santos Reyes Banegas, 42, who died in the Nassau County Center Correctional Center in East Meadow, east of the city of New York, for an alleged failure of the liver.
Reyes Banegas died on September 18 just eighteen hours after arriving at the detention center, where “by protocol went through a medical review” that declared it admissible the previous day, said the government agency.
The deaths of the Mexican and the Honduran are added to the sixteen deaths of migrants already officially recognized by the ICE so far from fiscal year 2025, which began in October 2024, which already exceeds the twelve registered throughout the previous fiscal year.
With EFE information.
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