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Angela Kocherga

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Up First from NPR
Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

and called for emergency medical help.

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Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

ICE says the death is a presumed suicide.

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Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

And earlier this month, ICE reported a 55-year-old man named Geraldo Lunas Campos tried to take his own life and staff intervened to save him, but he died.

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Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

Both cases are under investigation.

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Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

The third death in custody happened in early December.

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Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

That was 48-year-old Francisco Gaspar Andres.

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Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

He died after he was transported to a local hospital for a medical condition.

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Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

So the Department of Homeland Security oversees ICE.

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Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

In an emailed response yesterday to a question about medical care at the facility, DHS said it has a longstanding practice to provide comprehensive medical care in custody, and that includes medical and mental health intake screenings within 12 hours of arriving at a facility.

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Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

DHS said there's also access to medical appointments and 24-hour emergency care.

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Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

Human rights advocates and multiple lawyers have lots of concerns, and they've documented cases of medical neglect, physical abuse, and unsanitary conditions at the facility known as Camp East Montana.

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Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

And all of those were included in a report by the ACLU.

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Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

Marisa Limon Garza is the executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center.

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Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

And El Paso's Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, a Democrat, toured the facility when it opened in August and she's calling for it to shut down.

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Trump's World Stage, El Paso Detention Deaths, Indiana College Football Champions

Escobar is among 122 members of her party supporting legislation to create enhanced oversight for detention centers and phase out private contractors over three years.

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NPR News: 01-19-2026 2AM EST

ICE says Victor Manuel Diaz died at the tent facility last Wednesday.

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NPR News: 01-19-2026 2AM EST

The 36-year-old from Nicaragua had been in custody since January 6, when ICE says agents encountered him in Minneapolis and determined he was in the country illegally.

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NPR News: 01-19-2026 2AM EST

According to ICE, staff at the massive detention camp in El Paso found Diaz unconscious and called for emergency medical help.

NPR News Now
NPR News: 01-19-2026 2AM EST

ICE says the death is a presumed suicide.

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NPR News: 01-19-2026 2AM EST

There are conflicting reports about another death at the camp that ICE says was suicide.