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Edwin Lopez-Cornejo

A death in ICE custody recorded after the fixed report cohort closed on June 4, 2026. It carries an official ICE notice and is published outside the 52.

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The reviewed record

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo

Age
41
Reported origin
El Salvador
Date of death
August 1, 2026
Official notice announced
August 3, 2026
Custody at death
In hospital, custody continuing
Place of death
University Hospital, Newark, New Jersey

AILA’s ICE-linked index records that Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died in ICE custody at University Hospital after detention at Delaney Hall Detention Facility.

Cause of death recorded as pending.

Detainee Death Report: not located as of August 22, 2026

What this record does not establish
  • A cause of death, preventability, negligence, or responsibility.
  • That Delaney Hall or its operator caused or could have prevented the death.
  • That an official notice is a complete mortality review.
American Immigration Lawyers AssociationU.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementPhysicians for Human RightsNational Immigration Project
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Which counts include this person

  • Included in this site’s later official-notice lane of 4 records, dated after June 4, 2026.
  • Not included in the fixed 52-person Human Rights Watch / Physicians for Human Rights cohort, which closes on June 4, 2026.

How the published totals differ, and why

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Sources

  1. [1]
    Deaths at Adult Detention Centers

    American Immigration Lawyers Association · legal research index · Publication/update date not shown · retrieved August 22, 2026

    Locator: FY2026 entries through August 1, 2026

    Cross-index of ICE notices and DDRs; supports four later official records and a 23-entry calendar-2026 enumeration.

    Not an ICE-authored aggregate; linked source records remain controlling.

  2. [2]
    Detainee passes following medical emergency in New Jersey

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · official death notice · August 3, 2026 · retrieved August 22, 2026

    Locator: Full notice

    Official notice for Edwin Lopez-Cornejo.

    No corresponding DDR was located in the reviewed index as of the cutoff.

  3. [3]
    Statement on the Death of Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 53rd Known Death in ICE Custody

    Physicians for Human Rights · advocacy medical statement · August 4, 2026 · retrieved August 22, 2026

    Locator: Headline and opening paragraph

    A narrower source-defined current-administration ordinal that does not reconcile mechanically with the 52-person broad DDR-system cohort plus four later notices.

    No published person-by-person crosswalk explaining the three-record difference was located.

  4. [4]
    Mourning Those Who Have Died in ICE Custody

    National Immigration Project · advocacy memorial index · August 4, 2026 · retrieved August 22, 2026

    Locator: 2026 list and stated aggregate

    Source-defined 24-person calendar-2026 tally that includes the post-release Trejo case; later official-record context.

    Advocacy-defined scope differs from the ICE/AILA in-custody index and includes attributed claims.

American Immigration Lawyers AssociationU.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementPhysicians for Human RightsNational Immigration Project

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