The family of Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel, a 52-year-old Costa Rican man detained by U.S. immigration authorities earlier this year and deported in a vegetative state, says medical negligence during his custody led to his death in Costa Rica on October 26.
Gamboa was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Texas in February after what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) described as an illegal re-entry. He was initially held at the Webb County detention facility and later transferred to another site in Port Isabel, where relatives say he communicated daily until June, when contact abruptly stopped.
