Mexican Immigrant Alejandro Cabrera Clemente Dies in ICE Jail

Another immigrant has died in ICE custody. Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, a 49-year-old man from Mexico, was being detained at the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana. He was reportedly found unresponsive in his cell last week. He is at least the 16th immigrant to die in ICE custody so far this year and the 47th reported ICE death since Trump returned to office.  In related news, federal regulators have cited three contractors on violations following the death of a construction worker last year while the Trump administration rushed to build Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, where ICE is now jailing immigrants. Hector Gonzalez was crushed to death by falling construction materials in July, just days after the U.S. Army awarded a contract worth more than $1 billion to Acquisition Logistics to build and operate the camp at Fort Bliss. Details of the contract and safety violations were first revealed in a Public Citizen investigation. While the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration declined to cite Acquisition Logistics over Gonzalez’s death, it sought penalties against three subcontractors that helped build Camp East Montana.