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Washington,.- A 36-year-old Nicaraguan migrant died this week at the largest detention center for immigrants in United States, raising to three the number of people who have died in these facilities, located on a military base south of Texas.
The man, identified this Sunday by the authorities as Victor Manuel Díaz, died by suicide, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a statement this Sunday, where they indicated that an investigation has already been opened to determine the "official cause" of his death.
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Díaz was arrested by ICE on January 6th in Minneapolis (Minnesota), a state more than 2,000 kilometers north of Texas where Trump has deployed thousands of migration agents in recent weeks, provoking protests and clashes with civil society. The immigrant arrived in the U.S. in March 2024, through the border with Mexico, where he surrendered to the authorities and was granted entry to the country, a standard practice under previous governments and permitted under the country's immigration law, which has been terminated under the Trump Administration. The death of Díaz is the third this year at this center, composed of a series of stores built on the Fort Bliss military base, on the outskirts of El Paso. 'Camp Montana', as it is called by the Trump Administration, has been pointed out by human rights organizations for a pattern of abuses against migrants, including "beatings and sexual abuse by agents (...) coercive threats to force deportations to third countries, medical negligence, hunger and insufficient food, as well as the denial of effective access to legal defense", as detailed by the ACLU group in a report. Also this week, The Washington Post revealed that a forensic doctor indicated to the daughter of Geraldo Lunas, the second migrant to die at Camp Montana this year, that her father's death was due to asphyxiation and will likely be indicated in the final report as homicide, by the center's staff. Under the current Government, migrant detentions in the U.S. have reached record levels: on average, more than 73,000 remained in custody, the highest figure since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2001, according to data leaked to CBS News. Last year was the deadliest in at least two decades for people in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with more than 30 deaths.
