Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday her government is going to escalate complaints to the United States after the death of another Mexican national in U.S. immigration detention.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday in a statement that Jose Guadalupe Ramos Solano died in a detention center near Los Angeles on March 25, marking the 14th in-custody death so far this year.
That number is set to outpace last year’s 31 reported deaths in ICE detention, the deadliest year since 2004.
Mexico said last week 13 of its citizens have died in U.S. immigration detention or ICE operations since President Donald Trump took office last year. Sheinbaum’s government sent a diplomatic note to counterparts in Washington, D.C., in protest.
Sheinbaum told reporters on Monday that her government plans to do more.
“Now we’re going to take more measures challenging what happened,” Sheinbaum said.
Sheinbaum said their complaints would focus particularly on the detention center outside Los Angeles where Ramos Solano died last week. He’s the fourth Mexican national to die at the facility over the past year.
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