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Officials: ICE Detainee Held At NJ Facility Dies After 'Medical Emergency'
A Salvadoran migrant who was in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in New Jersey died following a "medical emergency" over the weekend, federal officials said Monday. Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, had been detained at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was transported to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead Saturday, the agency said. (Deliso, 8/3)
The Department of Homeland Security has begun summoning Haitian immigrants in Ohio to check-in appointments with federal officers who are outfitting them with ankle monitors, in what appears to be a new enforcement effort after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end their humanitarian protections. (Hernandez, Hesson and Gurley, 8/3)
An ongoing green card freeze based on concerns that applicants from 75 countries could become dependent on public benefits is unlawful, a Washington, DC federal district court judge ruled. The public charge policy issued by Secretary of State Marco Rubio is an exercise of authority specifically denied by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act, Judge Amit Mehta held in a July 31 opinion. (Kreighbaum, 8/3)
A Johns Hopkins University public health researcher who federal immigration officers detained on July 28 has valid work authorization, according to her attorney. Fatima Ameaka, a native of Cameroon, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while boarding a domestic flight at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport. (Thompson, 8/3)
The immigrants aboard Flight 164 were pursuing lives in the U.S. when ICE detained them. In Venezuela, they were held in a building that collapsed hours later. (Hernandez and Paul, 8/2)
