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Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, was detained at the Delaney Hall facility in Newark. The family of a Salvadoran national who died while detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in New Jersey over the weekend is demanding answers on what happened prior to his death in federal custody. Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 39, who was detained at the Delaney Hall facility in Newark, died on Saturday following a "medical emergency," ICE said. ICE said in a statement Monday that Lopez-Cornejo "received proper medical care and was seen by medical professionals" while in custody. Though family members are questioning his care, claiming during a press briefing Tuesday that he was not immediately transported to a hospital after reporting numbness in his face and arm a day before he died. "If he told the doctor he couldn't feel half of his face and his arm, why wouldn't the doctor order him to go to the hospital?" his mother, Maria Cornejo, said at a press event on Tuesday.
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The family is demanding accountability for Lopez-Cornejo's death, the release of all medical records from ICE and GEO Group, the private company contracted by ICE to run the Delaney Hall facility, and the closure of the detention center and the release of detainees.
