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3 Immigrants Die in U.S. Custody in Last Month

HeadlineAug 15, 2007

Federal treatment of detained undocumented workers is under new scrutiny following three deaths in U.S. immigration jails over the past month. Twenty-three-year-old Victoria Arellano died after her AIDS treatment lapsed at a California immigration jail. Fellow prisoners cared for her before she was moved to a hospital. She died shackled to her bed. Another victim, Edmar Alves Araujo, died after immigration officials ignored his relatives’ pleas to provide medicine for his epilepsy. The third victim, Rosa Isela Contreras-Dominguez, died in an El Paso immigration jail while seven weeks pregnant.

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