Six Deaths in Six Weeks
A record-shattering deadliest year in ICE detention has seen six fatalities within just six weeks in Texas facilities, marking a twenty-year high for immigrant deaths under federal custody. Central to the crisis is the death of 55-year-old Cuban national Geraldo Lunas Campos, whose passing at the Camp East Montana tent structure in El Paso was officially ruled a homicide by medical examiners due to asphyxiation during physical restraint. Faisal Al-Juburi, Co-CEO of RAICES, has condemned these conditions, citing at least 1,000 complaints of poor medical care lodged since the Trump administration reopened the Dilley Immigration Processing Center last April. While Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) initially attributed deaths to "medical distress," advocacy groups and legal experts warn that the rapid expansion of the detainee population, coupled with systemic medical neglect and a lack of oversight, has created a "deadly period" for immigrants as the government pursues mass deportation policies.
