A Colombian in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) died Monday night in a Texas hospital. He is the fourth immigrant to dies detained by this agency so far this fiscal year 2021 (which began e1 October 1), as reported by federal authorities this Wednesday.
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The agency detailed in a statement sent to Efe that Diego Fernando Gallego Agudelo, 45, died on the night of March 15 in Valley Baptist Medical Center (VBMC), in Harlingen, Texas.
The immigrant was arrested by the immigration authority on March 2 after entering formally undocumented in the United States near Hidalgo, Texas. On March 3 he was transferred to the ‘ Port Isabel Detention Center (PIDC) in Los Freixes, Texas.
Gallego Agudelo was hospitalized from March 6. The causes of the Colombian’s death are unclear, Or if you were infected with the coronavirus. The agency did not detail the information. the ICE CREAM he notified the death to his own Office of Professional Responsibility and to the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security.
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A 57-year-old Mexican man who was in ICE custody also died Jan. 30 at Piedmont Columbus Regional Hospital in Columbus, Georgia.
This is the fourth immigrant in ICE custody who dies in the fiscal year 2021 and the third to die since the president Joe Biden arrived at the White House on January 20th.
A Mexican 57 – year – old who was in ICE custody died on January 30 at Piedmont Columbus Regional Hospital in Columbus, Georgia. And in early February one died immigrant from the Bahamas who was detained in a prison of the ICE CREAM in Michigan.
The agency stressed in the statement that “deaths in ICE custody, statistically, are extremely rare and occur at a fraction of the national average for the detained population of the United States. “
EFE
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