Sheinbaum pledges aid to family after Mexican dies from shooting at Dallas ICE facility

A Mexican antheral changeable astatine a Dallas migration tract bureau past week has died, the 2nd migrant to dice arsenic a effect of the attack.

Miguel Ángel García Hernández, 32, was among 3 detainees changeable connected Sept. 24 erstwhile a sniper fired astatine a van wrong the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility. 

García was removed from beingness enactment and died connected Tuesday morning.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum asked U.S. authorities for a thorough probe and said Mexico would intercede if it were discovered that García’s rights were violated.

“We are successful interaction with the families regarding each aspects, some fiscal and legal, and should they privation to record a complaint, we volition marque each diplomatic appeals astatine our disposal,” she said.

In a statement, García’s woman Stephany Gauffeny described him arsenic a “good man, a loving father, and the supplier for our family.” She called his decease “a senseless calamity that has near our household shattered.”

García was the begetter of 4 children, ages 3, 8, 12 and 14, and Gauffeny is 39 weeks large with the couple’s 5th child.

“We had conscionable bought our archetypal location together, and helium worked hard each azygous time to marque definite our children had what they needed,” Gauffeny told NPR. 

García, who worked arsenic a location painter, was primitively from the bluish authorities of San Luis Potosí and had lived successful the U.S. since helium was 13 years old. 

The Sheinbaum medication fast-tracked paperwork to let García’s parent to question to Dallas aft the shooting. 

García is the 2nd Mexican national to dice this period portion successful ICE custody. 

Ismael Ayala Uribe, 39, who suffered from hypertension and tachycardia, died astatine a confederate California detention installation connected Sept. 22, prompting Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Ministry to request a afloat investigation.

Three different Mexicans person died portion successful ICE custody amid the “mass deportation” propulsion acceptable successful question by Donald Trump upon taking bureau arsenic U.S. president successful January.

Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, 32, died connected Aug. 31 portion being held astatine an ICE installation successful Arizona; Jesús Molina Veya, 45, was recovered dormant successful his cell astatine a Georgia detention installation connected June 7; and Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado, 68, died connected May 5 portion being transported from a section Georgia jailhouse to an ICE detention center. 

Experts pass determination are apt to beryllium much specified deaths arsenic U.S. authorities effort to scope the established people of arresting 3,000 radical a day, particularly arsenic backstage companies are being tasked with transporting immigrants, but with small oversight to guarantee their safety.

With reports from Milenio, El Economista, The Associated Press, CNN and NPR