Salvadoran immigrant Carlos Mejía Bonilla (or Bonilla
Mejia, according to Univision) died of gastrointestinal bleeding on June 10,
two months after being placed in immigration detention at the Hudson County
Correctional Facility in Kearny, New Jersey. His daughter says he had been
denied medication for a cirrhosis condition. ICE seems not to be answering
media inquiries.—TPOI editor
Salvadoran Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody as Detainee Deaths
Rise
This fiscal year’s deaths of ICE detainees are the most
since 2011.
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| Carlos Mejia Bonilla |
By Roque Planas and
Elise Foley, Huffington Post
June 13, 2017
A 44-year-old Salvadoran national died in Immigration and
Customs Enforcement custody on Saturday, the 10th detainee to die in ICE
custody since this fiscal year began Oct. 1. That’s the same number who died in
the entire 2016 fiscal year, and the most since 2011.
Carlos Mejía Bonilla, 44, was admitted to Jersey City
Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit with gastrointestinal bleeding on June 8.
He died two days later, according to a statement ICE released on Tuesday.[…]
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"No es justo que no le estuviesen dando su
medicamento", reclama la familia del salvadoreño que murió bajo la
custodia de ICE
Carlos Bonilla falleció el 10 de junio a causa de una
hemorragia interna en un hospital de Nueva Jersey, de acuerdo con ICE. El
hombre de 44 años había sido detenido el 1 de abril.
Por Univision
14 de Junio, 2017
Carlos Bonilla Mejía, el salvadoreño que murió por un shock
hemorrágico la semana pasada bajo la custodia de ICE en Nueva York, padecía de
diabetes, cirrosis y anemia, aseguró su hija Joanna a Univision Noticias. Sin
embargo, la joven reclamó que su padre presuntamente no estaba recibiendo los
medicamentos adecuados en el centro de detención.
Bonilla fue arrestado el 1 de abril por el Servicio de
Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE por su sigla en inglés). Ese día, según
su hija, iba camino al trabajo cuando el auto en el que viajaba junto a otros
tres pasajeros fue detenido por las autoridades.[…]
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Press Release: Rights Groups Call for Transparency and
Accountability in Latest ICE Detention Death
Contact: press@ccrjustice.org
June 14, 2017, New York — Immigrant rights organizations,
Center for Constitutional Rights, Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP),
Families for Freedom, Immigrant Defense Project (IDP), and Detention Watch
Network (DWN) are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Carlos
Mejia-Bonilla. Mejia-Bonilla, 44, died on Saturday while in the custody of
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This tragedy marks the 10th death
to occur in ICE detention since the start of the fiscal year. In the case of Mejia-Bonilla,
ICE has yet to reveal the New York area detention center where he was held
prior to his death.
“ICE must publicly reveal the detention center where
Mejia-Bonilla was held prior to his death,” said Ghita Schwarz of Center for
Constitutional Rights. “It is unacceptable that they would deliberately
withhold crucial information as we try to understand what led to this
tragedy.”[…]
Read the full press release:
Download the report 2016 Fatal Neglect, How ICE Ignores
Deaths in Detention:
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