Jonathan Blitzer

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Fresh Air · Uncovering abuse inside America's largest ICE detention center · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

But then in early January, on January 2nd,

A number of other detainees hear him complaining about the fact that the guards are not giving him his inhaler for asthma.

And the guards threaten to throw him into solitary, which, by the way, is something that an experience that Ray had, too.

You know, when he repeatedly said, look, I need medication for my diabetes, they said, if you keep giving us problems, we're going to throw you in solitary.

And he would say, as Lunas Campos did, fine, throw me in solitary.

Just give me my medication.

And so people heard Lunas Campos saying as much.

And that was essentially the last that the general population saw or heard from him.

And the testimony of at least five other detainees who were being held in this row of

of cells for solitary confinement, either heard or even saw what happened next, which was essentially that a bunch of guards in trying to restrain Geraldo de los Campos essentially choked him to death.

And his last words were, I can't breathe.

You're choking me.

You know, begging, basically begging for his life.

That's right.

And that came out in this government accountability report that was published earlier this summer.

Exactly as you say.

I mean, that is a straightforward violation of ICE's own policy.

I'm really glad you mentioned this because this is a major trend also nationwide where members of Congress, by law, have the right to make what are known as unannounced visits at these facilities.

But essentially, when members of Congress and in this case, when Congresswoman Veronica Escobar tries to gain access to this facility.

She's just simply denied access, which is something that ICE legally can't do.

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