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Mexican national dead while in ICE custody

By Daniel Jativa
Published April 5, 2019 11:13pm ET
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Mexican national dead while in ICE custody
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents take a suspect into custody as part of a nationwide immigration sweep. | (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Federal immigration officials said Friday that a Mexican national died in custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Abel Reyes-Clemente, 54, died Wednesday morning in the Florence Service Processing Center in Florence, Ariz., after ICE medical staff said that Reyes-Clemente exhibited signs of influenza earlier in the week.

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