At least 14 cases of measles have been confirmed at the nation’s largest ICE detention facility, an agency spokesperson told NBC News in a statement.
People who tested positive for the highly contagious disease at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, have been “cohorted and separated from the rest of the detained population to prevent further spread,” the spokesperson said.
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In addition to the 14 people who got sick, 112 other individuals have been isolated in connection to the outbreak, according to Escobar.
“There has been nothing but crisis after crisis inside the walls of this tent city,” the Democratic congresswoman said in a statement.
Since Camp East Montana opened last year, three detainees have died while in ICE custody. Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, of Nicaragua, “died of a presumed suicide” inside the facility on Jan. 14. Francisco Gaspar-Andres, 48, a detainee from Guatemala, died of health complications from cirrhosis and cardiac hypertrophy.
Another Camp East Montana detainee, 55-year-old Geraldo Lunas Campos, of Cuba, died on Jan. 3 and his death was ruled a homicide.
According to ICE, the agency provides comprehensive medical care for detainees, including dental and mental health services, as well as access to medical appointments and 24-hour emergency care.
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