ICE IDs Immigrant Detainee Who Died of COVID-19 Complications

A detainee who was at the Otay Mesa Detention Center and died from complications of COVID-19 has been identified by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Carlos Escobar-Mejia, 57, from El Salvador was pronounced dead on May 6 at 2:15 a.m. at Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, where he had been hospitalized since April 24, ICE said in a release….