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Marina Dunbar

Third person dies at New Jersey immigration detention center

Flowers hang on a fence outside of Delaney Hall detention center
Flowers hang on a fence outside of Delaney Hall detention center, in Newark, New Jersey, 7 August 2026. Photograph: Vincent Alban/Reuters

A Guatemalan immigrant detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a Newark, New Jersey, facility suffered a medical emergency and later died after being hospitalized, according to the Trump administration.

José Chajón-Raxón is the third immigrant to die after being held at Delaney Hall, an ICE detention center that reopened in May 2025 amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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