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30-Year-Old Honduran Migrant Dies in U.S. Custody

HeadlineJul 03, 2019

Another Central American migrant has died in U.S. custody after becoming sick while locked up at a Houston immigration jail. Thirty-year-old Honduran native Yimi Alexis Balderramos-Torres was detained at the end of May before being handed over to ICE in June. He died in a Houston hospital Sunday after being found unresponsive in his detention cell. The cause of death remains undetermined, and an autopsy is scheduled.

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