Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia had been hospitalized for a little over a week before he died. An immigration judge had recently denied his release.
Hospitalized and on a ventilator for a little over a week, a detainee from Otay Mesa Detention Center on Wednesday became the first in immigration custody nationwide to die of COVID-19.
Rosa and her brother, the youngest of five siblings, came from El Salvador with their mother in 1980, during the country’s civil war, to join Maribel, who was already in the United States. Rosa said she’d lived with her brother ever since. Detainees have complained that the facility was not adequately protecting them from the coronavirus. Erik Mercado said he met Escobar Mejia in segregated housing — also known as solitary confinement — when Escobar Mejia was brought in for participating in a hunger strike over the facility’s conditions.“It was all about his sister,” Mercado said in an interview. “He wanted to get home and help her out.
When he died, he had been in the hospital for a little over a week and had been on a ventilator, his sisters said. He received a blood transfusion Tuesday, but his body had already been too weakened by the virus. That attorney wouldn’t take her calls, Rosa said, when she was trying to help her brother get out of the facility as his sponsor.When she found out her brother was hospitalized, it was through Del Valle, whom ICE called when its officer couldn’t get in touch with the new attorney.Her brother wasn’t perfect, Maribel said. When he was younger, he got in trouble from drinking, she said. Because of that, he hadn’t been able to get his green card.
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