Death by freezing raises serious questions, lawmakers say

California lawyers are demanding answers from U.S. Homeland Security officials following the deaths of two Orange County residents and the eventual arrest of two others.

In a letter on Friday, the secretary of security at Hoteland Kristia Noem, we reps. The number of deaths has reached a record for the year since the agency began keeping track in 2018.

Two Mexican migrants – who had previously made their homes in Orange County and were sent to the Adelanto Ice Processing Center north of Hesperia – were among the dead.

“These are not just numbers on a website, but real people – with families, jobs and hopes and dreams – each of them who died in the ice,” the lawmakers wrote. “The following cases show systematic patterns of delayed treatment, neglect, and failure to inform families properly.”

Ismael Ayala-Uribe, 39, died in September. 22 About a month after he was arrested while working at Great Valley Auto wash, where he had worked for 15 years, according to his family’s post.

He had lived in Westminster since he was 4 years old, and was previously protected from deportation under the limited action for child immigration program, known as DACA. The Times previously reported that his request for continued protection was not renewed in 2016.

Ayala-Uribe’s relatives and members of Congress allege that she was denied proper medical care after going to the Ice Store in August. Members of the Adelanto detention center were aware of his medical problem, according to internal emails available at the time. But Ayala-uribe was initially taken back to her Adelanto Dormy, where she waited three more days before being sent to Victor Valley Global Medical Center in Victorville.

Ice authorities confirmed that Ayala-uribe died at a Victorville hospital while awaiting surgery on his abdomen. The suspected cause of the sore was not revealed.

Ayala-uribe’s cause of death is under investigation, ICE has previously said.

A second man – Gabriel Garcia-Aviles, 56, who lived near Costa Mesa – died Oct. 23, about a week after the arrest.

ICE said Garcia-Aviles was arrested Oct. 14 in Santa Ana by the US Border Patrol for an outstanding warrant, and eventually sent to the Adelanto facility. Ice said in a previous statement that he was in adelanto condition several hours before he was taken to a Victorville hospital for “symptoms of alcohol withdrawal.”

His condition worsened rapidly.

The death focused on the treatment of immigrants in immigration detention and long-standing concerns about medical care inside Adelanto inside Adelanto, one of California’s largest immigration detention centers. The situation raises broader concerns about whether immigration agencies across the country are equipped to handle the flood of people who have been surrounded by President Trump as part of his second agenda.

“These deaths raise serious questions about Ice’s ability to comply with basic quarantine standards, medical care standards, and notification requirements, and underscore a pattern of misconduct,” and Chu wrote in a letter to Todd M. Lyons, Ice’s director.

The letter was signed by 43 other lawmakers, including reps. Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach), Joh Salnut Ana), John GaraMendi (D-Los Angeles).

A representative for Snow did not immediately respond to an email Saturday seeking comment.

Lawmakers stress the need to treat immigrants with humanity.

Law enforcement officials say Garcia-Aviles lived in the US for three decades. His family didn’t learn of his dire medical condition until he said he was “dying.” Family members rushed to the hospital to find him “unconscious, and… [with] Dried blood on his forehead “and” his tongue … broken teeth and blossoms on his body. ”

“We never got a chance to talk to him again [the family] He was never called to let us know why he had been transferred to the hospital, “it was written on his gofundme page, asking for help to pay for his funeral expenses.” His absence has left a hole in our hearts. “