Salvadoran immigrant Carlos Mejía Bonilla (or Bonilla Mejia, according to Univision) died of gastrointestinal bleeding on June 10, two months after being placed in immigration detention at the Hudson County Correctional Facility in Kearny, New Jersey. His daughter says he had been denied medication for a cirrhosis condition. ICE seems not to be answering media inquiries.—TPOI editor
Salvadoran Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody as Detainee Deaths Rise
This fiscal year’s deaths of ICE detainees are the most since 2011.
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By Roque Planas and Elise Foley, Huffington Post
June 13, 2017A 44-year-old Salvadoran national died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on Saturday, the 10th detainee to die in ICE custody since this fiscal year began Oct. 1. That’s the same number who died in the entire 2016 fiscal year, and the most since 2011.
Carlos Mejía Bonilla, 44, was admitted to Jersey City Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit with gastrointestinal bleeding on June 8. He died two days later, according to a statement ICE released on Tuesday.[…]
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"No es justo que no le estuviesen dando su medicamento", reclama la familia del salvadoreño que murió bajo la custodia de ICE
Carlos Bonilla falleció el 10 de junio a causa de una hemorragia interna en un hospital de Nueva Jersey, de acuerdo con ICE. El hombre de 44 años había sido detenido el 1 de abril.
Por Univision
14 de Junio, 2017
Carlos Bonilla Mejía, el salvadoreño que murió por un shock hemorrágico la semana pasada bajo la custodia de ICE en Nueva York, padecía de diabetes, cirrosis y anemia, aseguró su hija Joanna a Univision Noticias. Sin embargo, la joven reclamó que su padre presuntamente no estaba recibiendo los medicamentos adecuados en el centro de detención.
Bonilla fue arrestado el 1 de abril por el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE por su sigla en inglés). Ese día, según su hija, iba camino al trabajo cuando el auto en el que viajaba junto a otros tres pasajeros fue detenido por las autoridades.[…]
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Press Release: Rights Groups Call for Transparency and Accountability in Latest ICE Detention Death
Contact: press@ccrjustice.org
June 14, 2017, New York — Immigrant rights organizations, Center for Constitutional Rights, Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP), Families for Freedom, Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), and Detention Watch Network (DWN) are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Carlos Mejia-Bonilla. Mejia-Bonilla, 44, died on Saturday while in the custody of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This tragedy marks the 10th death to occur in ICE detention since the start of the fiscal year. In the case of Mejia-Bonilla, ICE has yet to reveal the New York area detention center where he was held prior to his death.
“ICE must publicly reveal the detention center where Mejia-Bonilla was held prior to his death,” said Ghita Schwarz of Center for Constitutional Rights. “It is unacceptable that they would deliberately withhold crucial information as we try to understand what led to this tragedy.”[…]
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