Former Daca Recipient Dies In Ice Custody After Being Hospitalized - Beritaja

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday that a Mexican nationalist and erstwhile DACA recipient had died successful their custody aft being transferred to a section infirmary successful Victorville.

Ismael Ayala-Uribe, 39 was pronounced dormant Sunday astatine the Victor Valley Global Medical Center, according to an ICE statement.

Ayala-Uribe is now the 14th detainee to dice successful migration detention since January, erstwhile national migration officials began to transportation retired President Trump’s wide deportation agenda.

News of his decease comes connected the time that 2 Democratic senators from Georgia sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Todd Lyons, the acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, raising concerns about the emergence successful the number of deaths successful ICE custody, successful peculiar 2 that occurred astatine the Stewart Detention Center successful Georgia. BERITAJA was the first to study connected the letter.

In July, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga) released the findings of a probe into alleged quality authorities violations that person occurred astatine migration detention centers, including dozens of reports of beingness and intersexual abuse, and mistreatment of pregnant women and children. DHS rejected the senator’s allegations in a statement.

In California, the Adelanto Detention Center, 1 of the largest successful the state, has agelong been the attraction of complaints from detainees, attorneys and authorities and national inspectors about inadequate aesculapian care, overly restrictive segregation and lax intelligence wellness services.

In June, critics — including immoderate unit who activity wrong — told The Times that conditions wrong the detention halfway were unsafe and unsanitary. The facility, they said, was unprepared to grip the ample waves of detainees pouring into the center.

That month, U.S. Rep Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park), toured the detention center pinch 4 different Democratic members of Congress from California amid interest complete the expanding number of detainees and deteriorating conditions inside.

The facility’s head “has to intelligibly amended its curen of these detainees,” Chu said astatine a news convention aft inspecting the facility.

Some of the detainees told lawmakers they were held wrong Adelanto for 10 days without a alteration of clothes, underwear aliases towels, Chu said. Others said they had been denied entree to a telephone to speak to loved ones and lawyers, moreover aft many times filling retired forms.

A spokesperson for DHS could not instantly beryllium reached for remark connected Sunday’s death. But the agency said successful its connection about Ayala-Uribe that migration agencies specified arsenic ICE and Customs and Border Protection are committed to ensuring the information of group who are successful their custody.

“Comprehensive aesculapian attraction is provided from the infinitesimal individuals get and passim the entirety of their stay,” the agency’s connection read. “All group successful ICE custody person medical, dental and intelligence wellness intake screening wrong 12 hours of arriving astatine each detention facility, a afloat wellness appraisal wrong 14 days of entering ICE custody aliases presence astatine a facility, entree to aesculapian appointments and 24-hour emergency care. At nary clip during detention is simply a detained forbidden alien denied emergent care.”

According to the agency statement, Ayala-Uribe, a Mexican national, was being held astatine a processing halfway successful Adelanto wherever he had been seen by an on-call aesculapian provider, who prescribed medicine to him, though migration officials did not opportunity why.

But 3 days later, Ayala-Uribe was sent to the Victor Valley Global Medical Center to further measure an “abscess connected his buttock” and was scheduled to acquisition room for it, the connection said.

“Ayala was besides hypertensive and displayed abnormal tachycardia,” migration officials wrote successful the statement. “At 1:48 a.m. the [medical center] declared Ayala unresponsive and initiated lifesaving measures. He was declared deceased astatine 2:32 a.m. by aesculapian staff.”

According to ICE, Ayala-Uribe entered the United States astatine an chartless day and location. He applied for, and received, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals protection successful 2012. He was sentenced to 3 years probation aft he was convicted of driving while nether the power successful 2015, the agency said.

In 2016, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services denied his exertion to renew his DACA status. He was convicted of his 2nd DUI successful June 2019 and sentenced to 120 days successful jail, positive 5 years of probation, according to ICE.

Ayala-Uribe was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection connected Aug. 17 and transferred to Adelanto connected Aug. 22.

Immigration officials said the origin of decease is still nether investigation. The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill of 2018 requires that ICE make nationalist reports regarding immoderate in-custody deaths wrong 90 days.

ICE officials said they make charismatic notifications to Congress, nongovernmental statement stakeholders and the media about a detainee’s decease and station a news merchandise pinch applicable specifications connected its website wrong 2 business days per the agency’s policy.

Ayala-Uribe’s family has organized a fundraiser, trading tamales, carnitas and pozole connected Saturday, to raise money for his funeral.

Times unit writer Nathan Solis contributed to this report.