ICE Published
Ismael Ayala-Uribe’s niece, Sophia Ayala, blows flowers over his grave at Westminster Memorial Park in Orange County on March 15, 2026. Ayala-Uribe, 39, died at the ICE’s Adelanto Processing Center on Sept. 22, 2025.
TL;DR
- Internal ICE investigators found substandard care contributed to deaths in immigration detention centers.
- Documents covering 33 deaths between September 2019 and January 2026 were briefly published online.
- In 27 out of 33 reviews, care was found to be outside 'safe practice limits.'
- ICE officials deny shortcomings, claiming detainees receive the best possible care.
- Eleven reviews were for detainees who died since January 2025, coinciding with a spike in deaths.
- Specific cases highlighted include Ismael Ayala-Uribe, Marie Ange Blaise, Santos Reyes-Banegas, and Lorenzo Antonio Batrez-Vargas, all of whom died due to alleged medical neglect.
- A former ICE official described the findings as 'pretty damning' and indicative of a 'broken system.'
- A watchdog group, Project Saltbox, downloaded the documents before ICE removed them and republished them.