# ICE detainee who illegally re-entered US after deportation dies at Delaney Hall

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/ice-detainee-who-illegally-re-entered-us-after-deportation-dies-at-delaney-hall/
- Published: 2026-08-04T01:02:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-25T11:08:56+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-detainee-who-illegally-re-entered-us-after-deportation-dies-delaney-hall
- Topics: Americas, World

## Key points

- Salvadoran detainee Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at Delaney Hall on 1 August
- He had re-entered the US illegally after a 2006 deportation
- Second death at the facility in under a year, sparking renewed closure calls

## Summary

A 41-year-old Salvadoran man being held at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in New Jersey died in federal custody on 1 August after suffering a medical emergency, prompting fresh calls from state and local officials to shut the privately run facility. Edwin Lopez-Cornejo had been arrested by ICE in Plainfield, New Jersey, in June after re-entering the US illegally following a 2006 deportation, and was awaiting removal under his reinstated deportation order when he died at University Hospital in Newark.

ICE said staff from the GEO Group, which operates Delaney Hall, and medical personnel responded to the emergency and called 911, and that Lopez-Cornejo had received proper medical care while detained; the cause of death is pending a formal medical examination. New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka both condemned the death, with Sherrill saying her administration was working with the state's congressional delegation to establish the facts and Baraka citing a lack of oversight and transparency at the facility. It is the second death at Delaney Hall in under a year, following that of detainee Jean Wilson Brutus in December 2025, and the facility has faced repeated accusations of obstructing health and safety inspections amid ongoing protests and hunger strikes over food, overcrowding and medical care.

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