15th Mexican Dies in ICE Custody; Sheinbaum Orders Daily Consular Visits, IACHR Referral

Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, a 49-year-old Mexican national, died at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Louisiana on or around April 14, becoming the 15th Mexican citizen to die in ICE custody since January 2025. Sheinbaum called the deaths 'unacceptable' and announced that Mexican consulates would shift from weekly to daily visits to ICE detention facilities holding Mexican nationals. The Foreign Ministry (SRE) was instructed to compile all 15 cases for submission to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The announcement signaled a harder public line from Sheinbaum toward the Trump administration's detention practices, even as both governments continued coordinating on deportation logistics and fentanyl enforcement. Mexico maintained it was not halting cooperation on security and migration, but characterized the detention deaths as a bilateral human rights issue requiring international oversight.