Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Ignacio Sarabia-Vallasenor

32 years old · died January 4, 2005 · Otay Mesa Detention Center, San Diego County, California

Ignacio Sarabia-Vallasenor, 32, died on January 4, 2005, while held in immigration detention at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, California. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lists his cause of death as cardiac arrest. The agency's listing is the only account of his death in these records.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE reported the death as cardiac arrest, and no source in the accounts describes a different cause.

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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