ICE says Salvadoran man dead following ‘medical emergency’ at Newark detention center
A detainee who had been held at a Newark, N.J., Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility has died, according to multiple officials. In a statement obtained by The Hill’s sister network NewsNation, ICE said that a 41-year-old Salvadoran migrant named Edwin Lopez-Cornejo who had been detained at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility “was pronounced deceased…
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A detainee who had been held at a Newark, N.J., Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility has died, according to multiple officials.
In a statement obtained by The Hill’s sister network NewsNation, ICE said that a 41-year-old Salvadoran migrant named Edwin Lopez-Cornejo who had been detained at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility “was pronounced deceased Aug.
1 by medical personnel at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.”
The agency said in their statement that the migrant “experienced a medical emergency while in ICE custody” and that “the official cause of death remains pending further medical examination.”
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