"At noon on Tuesday, January 6, when she was hoping 2026 would be a better year, Josselyn Yanez received a call from an officer with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The officer, politely, asked who she was if she was the daughter of Mr. Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz. I told him, Yes, I am his daughter.' Then the officer said he was sorry to inform her that her father, a 68-year-old Honduran migrant who was in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)."
"From one day to the next, her father was no longer just her father, but one of the four migrants who died during the first 10 days of the year after being detained by immigration authorities. I asked him how, why... I had a thousand questions. I couldn't believe it, Josselyn tells EL PAIS, visibly affected by a death the family never saw coming. We are devastated."
At noon on January 6, a DHS officer informed Josselyn Yanez that her 68-year-old father, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, had died while in ICE custody. Yanez-Cruz had been arrested on November 16 and transferred from Delaney Hall, New Jersey to the Imperial Regional Detention Center in Calexico, California. His last call to family was January 4; family say he was happy and calm. The family reports he complained of stomach pain, was given pills without a diagnosis, experienced extreme fatigue and shortness of breath, and fell ill while detained. Family members seek justice and question the circumstances of his arrest and medical care.
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