💬 Opinion Jun 26, 2026 · Whitney Curry Wimbish

20th Immigrant Dies in Trump’s Detention Camps

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20th Immigrant Dies in Trump’s Detention Camps
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At least 20 people have died in Donald Trump’s concentration camp network in 2026 as of Wednesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced. Sixty-three-year-old Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez, a Mexican national, was unconscious when guards found him the night of June 19 at the Webb County Detention Center in Laredo, Texas, a facility CoreCivic runs. Staff sent him to the Laredo Medical Center, where he died less than an hour later.



ICE listed no cause of death, saying only that an autopsy is

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