‘We are afraid that he is dead’: Man who suffered medical emergency in ICE custody still missing

Case Summary - An undocumented immigrant, Vicente Ventura Aguilar, was arrested in Los Angeles and subsequently disappeared after a medical emergency while in ICE custody [1][2][4] - ICE denies Ventura is in their custody, and his family and lawyers have been unable to locate him [2][5] - Eyewitnesses and surveillance footage corroborate Ventura's arrest by federal immigration authorities [8][9] Government Response and Transparency - DHS and ICE have reportedly been uncooperative and hostile towards the family, lawyers, and press seeking information about Ventura's whereabouts [12][13][14] - Repeated requests to DHS to search for Ventura using biometric data and photographs have been unsuccessful [10][11] - The government's lack of transparency is hindering efforts to determine what happened to Ventura [18][19][20] Broader Implications - The case is representative of a larger pattern of moral decay and lack of care in immigration enforcement [15][16] - The situation is compared to the Zero Tolerance policy where children were separated from their parents without a plan for reunification [14][16] - The acting director of ICE's desire to operate with the scale and speed of Amazon Prime is criticized for treating people like commodities [21][22]