Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Walter Alvarez-Esquivel

46 years old · died July 6, 2005 · Laredo Processing Center, Webb County, Texas

Walter Alvarez-Esquivel, 46, died on July 6, 2005, while held in immigration detention at the Laredo Processing Center in Laredo, Texas. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attributed his death to an acute hemorrhagic cerebral vascular accident, a brain hemorrhage.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE attributed the death to an acute hemorrhagic cerebral vascular accident, a stroke.

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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