From the Editorial
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, p. 23
Gabriel García Avilés, a 56-year-old undocumented Mexican migrant, detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE), died from complications derived from alcohol withdrawal syndrome at the Victor Valley Global medical center in California, the United States Department of Homeland Security reported yesterday in a statement.
He explained that García was arrested and transferred “to the Adelanto ICE processing center on October 15,” but did not spend the night there “because that same day he presented suspicious symptoms of alcohol withdrawal and, therefore, was immediately admitted” to the hospital.
Medical personnel reported that the patient presented signs “such as disorientation, confusion and reduced mobility,” and that he himself claimed to be a consumer of “approximately a liter of liquor a day.” His death was attributed to “withdrawal cardiac arrest.”
A history of multiple entries without documents, disruption of public order and crimes such as providing false identification to a police officer, were some of the offenses committed by García Avilés, arrested on October 14 in Santa Anna. Although ICE filed immigration detention orders “after some of these arrests,” the statement said, “local authorities did not comply with them.”
