Angela Kocherga

A detainee told the Associated Press...

That man was in an altercation with staff when he died.

For NPR News, I'm Angela Kocherga in El Paso.

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

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.

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

ICE says the death is a presumed suicide.

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

A detainee told the Associated Press that man was in an altercation with staff when he died.

For NPR News, I'm Angela Kocherga in El Paso.

There are conflicting reports about how the 55-year-old man died.

A detainee at the camp told the Associated Press he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos in an altercation with guards and heard him say in Spanish...

He could not breathe.

The Department of Homeland Security says Lunas Campos tried to take his own life and staff intervened to save him.

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

This is the second death at the detention camp where more than 3,800 people are being held.

For NPR News, I'm Angela Kocherga in El Paso.

New requirements and much higher fees for visitor visas don't seem to be stopping travelers from Mexico.

According to federal data, arrivals by air are up slightly.

and entry by cars grew by more than 13 percent this year.