U.S. authorities acknowledge the death, raising concerns about a broader pattern of abuse and neglect.

In early January, former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent David Courvelle, 56, admitted to sexually abusing a Nicaraguan woman detained at a Louisiana facility for months.

Prosecutors argue that the former officer brought the victim letters and photographs of her daughter, as well as food and other gifts. All of this violated ICE detainment laws.

Courvelle hired security guards while he abused his victim in the cleaning closet. He was released after posting $10,000 bail and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 10. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported that a Nicaraguan immigrant died in its custody on January 14 at a detention center in El Paso, Texas. However, they did not announce it publicly until four days later, on January 18.

Victor Manuel Diaz, originally from Nicaragua and 36 years old, was arrested on January 6 by ICE agents during capture operations deployed in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In Minnesota, specifically, there has been an increase in ICE agents as part of the crackdown on immigration promoted by Donald Trump. Around the same time that Víctor was captured, ICE killed Renee Nicole Good.

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) version of Diaz’s death, security personnel at the detention center found him unconscious and immediately alerted medical staff.

However, this is the third consecutive death at that same facility, known as Camp East Montana. Before Víctor, according to witnesses inside the facility, Cuban national Geraldo Lunas Campos was suffocated and killed by ICE guards.

According to DHS, Lunas Campos committed suicide. However, he was also preceded by Francisco Gaspar-Andrés, from Guatemala, who was declared dead, according to ICE, due to “kidney failure”.

The conflicting accounts of the deaths of Victor, Geraldo, and Francisco have intensified the public discussion about the conditions in immigration detention centers at a time when the U.S. government, far from reducing arrests, has intensified its policy of persecution.

The US government, although it admits the deathsand abuseof immigrants under its custody, through ICE and DHS, disclaims responsibility for not having protected their lives.