An ICE detainee from New Jersey dies a day after calling his mother from the detention center to say he was unwell

An ICE detainee from New Jersey dies a day after calling his mother from the detention center to say he was unwell

A New Jersey immigrant who had been detained at an ICE facility at Delaney Hall was declared dead last Saturday after a medical emergency. According to CNN, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, 41, had called his mother to tell her he was sick the day before he died. That conversation on Friday was the last time Maria Cornejo spoke to her son. She said he told her he wasn’t feeling well, describing numbness that had spread through one side of his face a…