"ICE suspected the cause of Gaspar-Andres's death to be natural liver and kidney failure, adding that: From the moment they were notified of his health crisis, ICE medical staff ensured he had constant, high-quality care. The agency issued a press release detailing a litany of escalating medical complaints over his 10 weeks in Texas and said he received care at the camp in November for a variety of ailments including flu-like symptoms, bleeding gums, fever, jaundice and hypertension."
"On 28 November, his wife, now widow, Lucia Pedro Juan, was put on a deportation flight to Guatemala, after also being held at the ICE tent facility known as Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss, according to an account she gave to the El Paso Times."
"The Trump administration ordered Camp East Montana constructed earlier this year to hold migrants on the army base. Pedro Juan was traced by the El Paso Times to the town of Santa Eulalia in Guatemala's western highlands, where she told journalists visiting her that she and her husband had been taken separately to Fort Bliss after being arrested during a traffic stop in south Florida in September, where they had lived for years and have five children."
Francisco Gaspar-Andres, 48, died on 3 December at a hospital in El Paso after being held at ICE's Fort Bliss camp in Texas. ICE suspected natural liver and kidney failure and said medical staff provided continuous care, listing escalating complaints over his 10-week detention including flu-like symptoms, bleeding gums, fever, jaundice and hypertension. An immigration judge ordered his removal on 14 November; he was hospitalized on 16 November and developed infection, organ failure and internal bleeding. His wife, Lucia Pedro Juan, was deported from the same camp on 28 November; both were arrested during a September traffic stop in south Florida where they lived and raised five children.
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