The 56-year-old Mexican man who [died Saturday while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody](https://www.texastribune.org/2026/10/18/migrant-found-dead-ice-laredo/) was a lawful permanent resident in the country, the agency said in a statement a day after The Texas Tribune reported about his death.
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Her dad had a heart condition, she said, along with diabetes and high blood pressure. He had medicine with him when he was detained, but she said staff at the center wouldn’t “give him his medications.”
When he said he felt sick and had a cough, she said her family was especially worried because he was hospitalized for COVID-19 in 2021 and the illness took a lasting toll on his health. He sought help from the facility’s medical staff, but he told her that “they would just ignore him.”
She said her dad told her that medical staff at the center brushed off his concerns, even when he told them he was having trouble breathing and felt tightness in his chest.
The bitter irony of Trump immigration is that you’re incentivized to be as undocumented as possible.
Any amount of documentation will just be used against you.
Names, we’re taking names. People who work in Concentration Camps are prime targets for prosecution. Concentration Campa are unforgivable. Every person who works in a Concentration Camp, at any level, will serve time in prison.
