"Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minneapolis, where ICE has been carrying out violent immigration arrests, cracking down on dissent, and where one officer fatally shot a legal observer earlier this month. He was one of roughly 2,903 detainees being held at Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss US Army base, one of the largest ICE detention centers in the country, on January 14 when contract security workers found him "unconscious and unresponsive" in his cell."
"He was later pronounced dead and ICE released a statement saying he had died of "presumed suicide," but officials arre still investigating his cause of death. Diaz's death comes days after it was reported that a medical examiner in Texas was planning to classify another death reported at Camp East Montana - that of Geraldo Lunas Campos - as a homicide."
Officials in Texas and Minnesota are calling for accountability and a full investigation into conditions at Camp East Montana, the sprawling detention complex at Fort Bliss in El Paso, following a third reported death in less than two months. Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, was detained by ICE officers in Minneapolis and was one of roughly 2,903 detainees held at Camp East Montana when contract security workers found him "unconscious and unresponsive" in his cell on January 14. ICE said he died of "presumed suicide," and officials are still investigating his cause of death. A Texas medical examiner planned to classify the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos as a homicide after a doctor listed "asphyxia due to neck and chest compression" as a preliminary cause and an eyewitness reported seeing guards choke Lunas Campos. A month earlier, detainee Francisco Gaspar-Andres died at a nearby hospital, and ICE said medical staff attributed his death to "natural liver and kidney f".
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