Immigrant held at New Jersey ICE facility dies, officials say | CNN

A Salvadoran man being held at a controversial immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, has died, federal officials said Monday, marking the latest death of an immigrant in ICE custody. Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, a migrant detained at the Delaney Hall detention center, was pronounced dead on Saturday by medical workers at University Hospital in Newark, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement. The privately owned facility has been at the center of allegations of inhumane conditions for detainees, which led to dayslong protests earlier this year and clashes between law enforcement and protesters that prompted the city’s mayor to enact a temporary curfew. Lopez-Cornejo “experienced a medical emergency while in ICE custody,” and GEO Group facility staff and medical staff “responded immediately and called 911 for emergency medical services,” ICE said. The official cause of death remains pending further medical examination, the agency added. Lopez-Cornejo was 39, according to his family, although ICE identified him as 41 in its statement. His 12-year-old daughter, who had been unable to visit her father at Delaney Hall, spoke through tears at a news co