A 41-year-old Salvadoran national who re-entered the United States illegally has died in federal custody after being arrested in New Jersey following a previous deportation, U.S.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials announced Monday.Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died Aug.
1 at University Hospital in Newark after suffering a medical emergency while detained at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility, according to an ICE statement.Staff with the GEO Group, the private detention company that manages the facility, along with medical personnel, responded to the emergency and called 911.The official cause of death remains pending a formal medical examination, according to ICE.SOROS-BACKED NONPROFIT ACCUSES NJ GOV SHERRILL OF SPREADING 'MAGA PROPAGANDA' ON ICE DETAINEESICE agents stand guard in front of protesters outside the federal immigration center at Delaney Hall in Newark, where ICE is housing detained immigrants on May 26, 2026, in Newark, New Jersey.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Lopez-Cornejo was first apprehended by U.S.
Border Patrol for entering the U.S.without inspection on or about Aug.
13, 2006.A Department of Justice immigration judge ordered him removed on Aug.25, 2006, and he was deported to El Salvador on Oct.
19, 2006.He later re-entered the U.S.illegally on an unknown date before ICE officers arrested him in Plainfield, New Jersey, on June 18.He was held at Delaney Hall pending removal pursuant to the reinstatement of his prior removal order.ICE officials said that Lopez-Cornejo received proper medical care during his detention.MORE THAN 100 HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS WITH VIOLENT OFFENSE AND SEX CRIME CONVICTIONS DEPORTED: DHSProtesters, politicians and ICE agents gather outside Delaney Hall, an immigration facility in Newark, N.J., on May 27, 2026.
(Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)The agency notified the Department of Homeland Security oversight offices, the Consulate of El Salvador in Elizabeth, and Lopez-Cornejo's next of kin, the statement said....