Cameroonian immigrant Nebane Abienwi died Tueday after undergoing treatment for a brain hemorrhage at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center.
He had been detained at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego since Sept. 19, according to ICE.
The groups calling on ICE for more answers include the Cameroon American Council; Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans; the Black Alliance for Just Immigration; the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project; the Black Immigrant Collective; the African Public Affairs Committee and others. In response to calls for more information from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration on Friday, ICE referred to the agency’s previous statement from Wednesday.
“No one should be locked up for seeking safety and wanting a better life,” said the statement from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. “Black immigrants, in particular, report horrific experiences of anti-blackness, abuse, and harassment while in detention,” the group also said.But Abienwi was likely an asylum seeker from a region of Cameroon gripped by ongoing violence, the group said.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of Cameroonians applying for asylum to the U.S. has also increased from about 600 in 2012 to more than 1,300 in 2016, the latest numbers available.
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