Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Jose Javier Hernandez-Valencia

44 years old · died April 12, 2014 · Houston Processing Center, Houston, Texas

Jose Javier Hernandez-Valencia, 44, died on April 12, 2014, while held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at the Houston Contract Detention Facility in Houston, Texas. ICE reports that he died of complications of disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis. The record contains no account from his family or others about his life, and no dispute of the agency's stated cause of death.

Cause of death, as reported: Cause not yet determined

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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