Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Ambrocio Valasquez

42 years old · died June 27, 2008 · Perry County Correctional Center, Perry County, Alabama

Ambrocio Valasquez, 42, died on June 27, 2008, while held in immigration detention at the Perry County Correctional Center in Selma, Alabama. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lists the cause of death as cardiopulmonary arrest. The agency's listing gives no account of the circumstances of his death, and it does not say how or why the arrest occurred.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness

Reported by: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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