Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, a 41-year-old Salvadoran national, died August 1 following what officials called a sudden medical emergency inside Delaney Hall, the privately run immigration jail in Newark, New Jersey. His death makes him the 22nd person to die in ICE custody so far in 2026, extending a fatality pace that watchdog groups say has no recent precedent. A Facility Already Under InvestigationThe death lands in the middle of a months-long fight over what actually happens inside Delaney Hall's walls. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson dismissed the litigation as frivolous, insisting Delaney Hall "complies with all required state and local laws." Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman went further, saying that if the family's account of withheld medication holds up, "the operators at Delaney Hall should be charged with homicide."