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During a Monday press conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum signaled that the country was prepared to press the U.S. over the number of fatalities in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
“We’re now going to take further action. We’re going to take several steps to protest the death of yet another Mexican national in the United States,” Sheinbaum said in the wake of a 51-year-old man’s death last week, according to Reuters.
On Monday, ICE announced that Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano had died in detention on March 25 after staff found him unconscious and unresponsive in his bunk. Ramos-Solano was the 14th Mexican national to die in ICE detention during Trump’s second term, according to the country’s Los Angeles consulate.
ICE also stated that Ramos-Solano had multiple medical conditions, including diabetes and hypertension, and claimed that he had received constant medical care.
U.S. detention facilities, including the Adelanto ICE Processing Center where Ramos-Solano was held, have been criticized for poor conditions and inadequate medical care in multiple reports.
Mexican leaders will raise their concerns with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Congressional lawmakers, according to The Guardian. They also plan to file an amicus brief backing a lawsuit against the GEO Group, a private contractor that runs the Adelanto detention facility for ICE.