Mexican immigrant dies while under custody of ICE

Lynn Rosado
The Ethnic Voice
Published in
1 min readApr 16, 2017

News from Hoy Los Angeles.

Hoy Los Angeles reports.

A man of Mexican decent died while under the custody of ICE.

Sergio Alonso López, 55, who was arrested en Feb., died of internal bleeding on Thursday night. When detained by ICE, López showed signs of medical problems, such as hepatic cirrhosis. After coughing up blood, López was transferred to hospital on April 1.

This marks the sixth death of a detained immigrant since Oct. 2016, reports Hoy Los Angeles.

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