Overview

• ICE identified the deceased as Ismael Ayala-Uribe, 39, a Mexican national held at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center who was transferred to Victor Valley Global Medical Center and was pronounced dead at 2:32 a.m.
• Officials said he was referred to the hospital for an abscess, was hypertensive with abnormal tachycardia, was found unresponsive at 1:48 a.m., and had been seen by an on-call provider and given medication three days earlier.
• Ayala-Uribe is the 14th person to die in ICE custody this year, according to agency statements and detention records.
• ICE says the cause of death remains under investigation, and federal law requires congressional notification and a public report on in-custody deaths within prescribed timelines.
• The death renews focus on longstanding complaints about medical care and conditions at Adelanto, as two Georgia senators sent a letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons citing rising detainee deaths.