A Mexican migrant died final week in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, in response to an company notification despatched to lawmakers, turning into the forty seventh particular person to die in ICE detention throughout the second Trump administration.
Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, 49, died on April 11 on the Winn Correctional Heart in Louisiana.
Within the notification, ICE stated that Cabrera was discovered unresponsive and was transported to a neighborhood medical middle.
“Regardless of life-saving efforts, at roughly 8:51 a.m., an onsite doctor at WPMC pronounced Cabrera deceased,” the company stated.
Clemente is the fifteenth Mexican nationwide to die in ICE custody because the administration started its immigration crackdown in 2025.
Final month, Mexican diplomat Vanessa Calva Ruiz referred to as the current deaths a part of “an alarming, unacceptable pattern” because the administration took workplace.
“These deaths reveal systemic failures, operational deficiencies, and attainable negligence,” she stated in Los Angeles.
The Winn Correctional Heart, an ICE detention facility, is seen on this aerial photograph in Winnfield, La., April 9, 2025.
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ICE stated that Clemente had prior convictions for disorderly conduct, drug possession, and probation violation, in addition to an arrest for home violence. ABC Information couldn’t independently affirm these claims.
The rise in ICE deaths has coincided with an unprecedented rise in federal immigration detention. The variety of folks being held lately climbed to a document 70,000, the very best stage within the company’s 23-year historical past.
In line with an ABC Information evaluation of ICE knowledge, the primary 14 months of the present time period have been the deadliest period at federal detention facilities because the COVID-19 pandemic. ABC Information’ evaluation discovered the present loss of life charge is 11 per 100,000 admissions, in comparison with 7 per 100,000 final 12 months and simply 1 per 100,000 in 2022.
In a earlier assertion, an ICE spokesperson stated, “In step with knowledge over the past decade, loss of life charges in custody are 0.009% of the detained inhabitants. As mattress house has quickly expanded, we’ve maintained a better customary of care than most prisons that maintain U.S. residents — together with offering entry to correct medical care. For a lot of unlawful aliens that is one of the best healthcare they’ve obtained their whole lives.”
“It’s a longstanding observe to offer complete medical care from the second an alien enters ICE custody. This contains medical, dental, and psychological well being providers as out there, and entry to medical appointments and 24-hour emergency care,” the assertion stated.
