The Hill….
A third migrant detained at Delaney Hall, New Jersey’s largest immigrant detention facility located in Newark, has died following a medical emergency.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told The Hill in a statement Thursday that, on July 19, a nurse was responding to another emergency when she noticed Guatemalan immigrant Jose Chajon-Raxon “experiencing seizure-like activity.”
Chajon Raxon, who had been detained the day before, was hospitalized shortly after the nurse spotted him. The man later died in the hospital, but because he was no longer in custody, the DHS spokesperson said Immigration Custom Enforcement (ICE) was not informed.
“While waiting for first responders to arrive, Chajon-Raxon was provided proper medical care from the nurse who reassured him he was safe,” the DHS spokesperson said in a statement. “The nurse gave a comprehensive report to first responders and Chajon-Raxon was taken to the hospital and released from ICE custody on July 22. ICE was not notified of his death.”
The spokesperson did not elaborate on when Chajon-Raxon died. They added that “when an individual is no longer in ICE custody then ICE will no longer be responsible for monitoring or reviewing deaths that may occur.”…
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Chajon-Raxon’s death came to light less than two weeks after a Salvadoran man detained at Delaney Hall, Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, also died from a medical emergency. The man’s family claimed the detention facility did not provide him consistent access to medications needed to treat his ongoing health conditions.
The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights announced days later that it would investigate the detention facility, privately owned by GEO Group, and examine whether the facility’s staff violated detainees’ civil rights — alleging inhumane treatment and failure to provide proper medical care.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Lopez-Cornejo’s cause of death was cardiac arrest but added that there were “no medical records of cardiac problems.” He claimed the Salvadoran man was on a diet and given medication to treat hypertension and diabetes…..
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The deluge has left a trail of shattered families, strained courts, traumatized attorneys and a massive trail of legal rejection….
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