Mexico will bring to the IACHR the deaths of nationals in the US under ICE custody

Mexico City.- The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced this Monday that the country will take the situation of Mexicans in the detention centers of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) after the death of another citizen last Friday while in their custody. During her daily press conference, the president explained that the Executive Branch will bring this situation to the IACHR for the first time, while sending letters to US authorities to complain about the “deficient medical care” at the Adelanto center in California (USA), where the deceased Mexican was being held. Since the return to the White House of the American president, Donald Trump, Washington hardened its immigration policy and has detained more than 177,000 Mexicans, and 14 have died while in the custody of ICE agents.

Mexico’s Actions Regarding the Deaths of ICE Detainees

After the last case, Sheinbaum read a statement from the Mexican Foreign Ministry in which the actions they are going to take were mentioned, among which she cited the presentation of a telematic hearing before the IACHR regarding the people who died in ICE detention centers.

Also, Mexican officials will hold meetings in Los Angeles with the deceased’s family and with human rights defenders, with the aim of “triggering community-level support” and to pressure United States authorities.

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Letters will also be sent to federal lawmakers from California, the state attorney general, and to the governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom.

“Today, the Undersecretary for North America (Roberto Velasco) will address the issue with the United States Ambassador to Mexico, Ronald D. Johnson,” added the president.

Last Friday, the Mexican Chancellery assured that it will “exhaust all legal and diplomatic instances to make visible the present problem and the attention” to the last death of a Mexican in the custody of US immigration authorities, something it described as “lamentable” and for which it demanded an investigation. Of the fourteen deaths, five have been recorded in California, three in Georgia, two in Arizona, one in Texas, one in Florida, one in Missouri, and one more in another undisclosed entity.