Otay Mesa detainee death prompts San Diego congressional demands – NBC 7 San Diego

Otay Mesa detainee death prompts San Diego congressional demands  NBC 7 San Diego

Members of San Diego's congressional delegation and California's senators demanded answers from the Trump Administration after a immigrant detainee died at Otay… Members of San Diego's congressional delegation and California's senators Friday demanded answers from the Trump Administration in the death of an immigrant detainee who died last month at Otay Mesa Detention Center. Guillermo Pascual Verganza, 42, was found unconscious and unresponsive in his single-occupant cell at the Department of Homeland Security penitentiary near the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office. Stream San Diego News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC 7. Prison staff members and paramedics tried in vain to revive Pascual Verganza before pronouncing him dead at the scene shortly before 12:30 p.m., the county agency reported.

Democrat representatives from San Diego including Juan Vargas, Scott Peters, Sara Jacobs and from San Juan Capistrano Mike Levin, and Democrat senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff wrote a letter to demand an investigation into the death. The letter, addressed to Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin and Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director David Venturella, read: As members of the San Diego Congressional delegation, we write to express our grave concern following the latest death of an individual in ICE custody at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, California,