The death of a Cuban migrant in a controversial ICE facility has been deemed a homicide in a medical examiner’s report after officials attributed the man’s death to a suicide attempt.
Geraldo Lunas Campos died on Jan. 3 at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, and his death was announced in a statement by ICE nearly a week later, on Jan. 9. The agency repeatedly changed its account of how he died, initially saying only that “staff observed him in distress” before medical staff arrived and pronounced him dead. Days later, the Department of Homeland Security offered a new version claiming he’d been trying to take his own life when guards rushed to help him.
An autopsy report by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner casts doubt on both those versions, however, listing the 55-year-old’s cause of death as “asphyxia due to neck and torso compression.” According to The New York Times, he sustained injuries to his head and burst blood vessels in his neck and eyelids. The report is just the latest setback for DHS as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faces mounting calls for impeachment over her handling of immigration enforcement.
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