Jose Manuel Azurdia-Hernandez
Jose Manuel Azurdia-Hernandez, 54, died on December 23, 2015, while held in immigration custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Adelanto Correctional Facility in California. ICE lists his cause of death as a myocardial infarction, or heart attack. A 2018 report by the ACLU, Detention Watch Network, Human Rights Watch and the National Immigrant Justice Center, as reported by Mic, says he became ill and began vomiting, and that his symptoms were consistent with a heart attack. The report says an attending nurse refused to check on him and that two hours passed before he was sent to the hospital. By the time he reached the hospital, the report says, his heart was too damaged to respond to treatment.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness (neglect alleged). ICE attributed his death to a myocardial infarction, while a report by the ACLU, Detention Watch Network, Human Rights Watch and the National Immigrant Justice Center says an attending nurse refused to check on him and he waited two hours before being sent to the hospital.
Reported by: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the agency that held him); A report by the ACLU, Detention Watch Network, Human Rights Watch and the National Immigrant Justice Center (advocates).