Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez died in ICE custody after being found unresponsive inside the Webb County Detention Center in Laredo, Texas. He was 63 years old. The facility is run by CoreCivic, a private prison company that operates detention facilities under government contract. His death adds to a fast-growing record of people dying inside federal immigration detention, including multiple deaths reported in Texas this year.

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His death is part of a wider custody-death pattern. The Texas Tribune reported that Alcorta-Rodriguez was at least the 20th person to die in ICE custody this year and at least the fifth person to die in Texas ICE detention. Texas accounted for at least a quarter of the reported national toll, placing the state at the center of the current record of detention deaths.

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Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez should not disappear into a detention statistic or a preliminary cause-of-death line. He died while held in ICE custody at a CoreCivic-run facility in Texas, during a year when Texas facilities account for a large share of reported ICE detention deaths. His death belongs in the public record of immigration custody, contractor detention, medical-care scrutiny, and federal oversight failures.

ICE detention deaths cannot disappear into agency notices and pending autopsies.