Laredo, TX — A 56-year-old Dallas man who died Saturday after nearly four months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody was a lawful permanent resident of the United States, ICE confirmed Monday.
Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, a Mexican citizen who had lived in Dallas for decades and raised three U.S.-born children, was found unconscious in his bed at the Rio Grande Processing Center. He was pronounced dead about 20 minutes later. His cause of death remains under investigation.
ICE detained Andrade-Covarrubias while he was returning from Mexico in June. The agency alleges he obtained his green card fraudulently by failing to disclose a 2004 theft arrest and had placed him in removal proceedings…