A total of 20 migrants died in custody of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE, in English) during fiscal year 2025, which concludes this Tuesday, in the midst of growing complaints about precarious conditions and deficiencies in medical care during the Donald Trump government.
The last two deceased were the Mexican Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, 32, and the Salvadoran Norlan Guzmán Fuentes, of 37, who died because of last Wednesday’s shooting at ICE facilities in Dallas (Texas).
García-Hernández died this week as a consequence of the wounds received, while Guzmán Fuentes, who had been arrested last Wednesday, died on the day of handcuffed and chained from feet and feet.
The dead of the shooting could increase since another migrant, in this case Venezuelan, which was in the truck that was shot next to the building is in critical condition.
Since President Donald Trump began his campaign of mass deportations, defenders of migrants put in the sights the conditions in which ICE keeps those detained by civil offenses, as is classified an infraction to the migratory laws of the United States.
The dead of the Fiscal Year 2025 is only surpassed by 2020, the year of the Covid-19 Pandemia, when 21 deaths were recorded. But it exceeds the twelve deaths of 2024. In the previous three years 4 deaths were recorded in 2023, 3 in 2022 and 5 in 2021.
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Six dead Mexican migrants are reported
Six of this year’s dead were originally from Mexico: García-Hernández, José Manuel Sánchez Castro, 36; Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, 32; Jesús Molina Veya, 45; Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado, 68; and Ismael Ayala Uribe, 39, who died on September 22.
The case of Ayala Uribe, which was held at the Center for Advancement, in Southern California, aroused an avalanche of criticism, for possible medical negligence.
The family and lawyer Jesús Arias scheduled a press conference on Tuesday to demand investigation into the death of the Mexican who arrived in the country being a child and was covered by the Deferred Action program for children in childhood (DACA).
Ayala Uribe “I was good health, he was a healthy and very young man,” said José Ayala, a relative of the deceased.
The migrant was arrested in a raid in a cars laundry in the Los Angeles metropolitan area on August 17 and transferred to the center of advance, which came to have only five detainees in its facilities due to the dangerous conditions, a federal judge determined.
But as part of the White House Migration Offensive, the center was put into operation in its entirety again.
According to ICE, Ayala Uribe was transferred one day before his death to a medical center, for “a more thorough evaluation” of an abscess in a buttock, where surgery was programmed. But the early morning of September 22 was found unconscious in his bed and declared dead.
They demand research
The concern for the deaths of the last year, 17 since Trump returned to power, generated alarm among relatives of detainees, defenders of American migrants and congressmen.
The senators by Georgia Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, both Democrats, wrote last week a letter to the Secretary of the National Security Department, Kristi Noem, and ICE’s head, Tood Lyons, expressing their “deep alarm” in the face of the increase in the number of deaths in Custody of ICE and demanded that officials information about the plan to “prevent” more deaths.
Two of the Mexicans, Molina Veya and Avellaneda Delgado, died in detention centers in Georgia.
The list of deaths in ICE custody in 2025 includes two immigrants from Honduras and two from Vietnam, in addition to one originally from Haiti, India, Guyana, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Colombia, Canada, China and Cuba.
Although all cases have generated repudiation, that of the Cuban Isidro Pérez, 75, raised protests in Florida for the detention of the old man who had lived almost six decades in the United States.
With EFE information
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