A 43-year-old immigrant from China has died while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, becoming at least the 17th person to die in federal immigration detention so far this year and prompting renewed scrutiny over medical care and transparency in detention facilities.
ICE identified the man as Huabing Xie, who, according to the agency, experienced a seizure on September 29 at the Imperial Regional Detention Facility in Calexico, California. Staff members reportedly performed CPR and used a defibrillator before emergency medical personnel arrived. Xie was transported to El Centro Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
