4 migrants die in US custody over first 10 days of year
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Family of man who died in ICE custody speak out
INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) - The family of a 68-year-old undocumented migrant who died at a local hospital while under ICE custody is speaking out to News Channel 3. Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, an undocumented migrant from Honduras, died on Jan. 6 after being admitted to JFK Memorial for heart-related health issues. According to ICE, Yanez-Cruz was taken into custody on November 16 during an operation in Newark, New Jersey. He was being held pending remo…
At noon on Tuesday, January 6, when he was betting that this was going to be a better year, Josselyn Yáñez received a call from an officer of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The friendly officer asked who she was, if she was the daughter of Mr. Luis Beltrán Yáñez-Cruz. “I told her, ‘Yes, I am her daughter.’ Then the officer let her know that she was sorry, but that her father, the 68-year-old Honduran migrant who remained in the custo…
Death Toll Climbs to Five in 10 Days as ICE Crackdown Crisis Spirals Out of Control
The first ten days of 2026 have already delivered a grim milestone: five people dead as a direct result of the federal government’s aggressive ICE crackdown. Four migrants who died in custody and one U.S. citizen fatally shot during an enforcement operation. Together, the deaths paint a picture of an immigration system spiraling rapidly out of control. According to government disclosures cited by Reuters, four migrants died in ICE detention faci…
4 migrants die in US custody over first 10 days of year
Four migrants lacking legal status died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the first 10 days of the year. Parady La, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres and Geraldo Lunas Campos were pronounced dead after being detained by federal immigration authorities. La, 46, became unresponsive after going through severe withdrawal…
Four Migrants Die in ICE Custody in First 10 Days of the Year Following Record Toll in 2025
Four migrants died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the first 10 days of the year, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
At least four people have died in the first 10 days of 2026 in the United States while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to AFP. The men were aged between 42 and 68, with two from Honduras, one from Cuba and the last from Cambodia. Authorities attributed the deaths of two of the men to “heart problems” and did not immediately explain the other deaths. However, they said one of them was under investigation. UN calls for i…
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