Geraldo Lunas Campos was a 55-year-old Cuban migrant detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since July 2025 at Camp East Montana, a tent facility on the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, Texas.[1][2] The Department of Homeland Security had publicized his arrest as emblematic of the "worst of the worst" cases amid the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts.[1] On January 3, 2026, Lunas Campos was pronounced dead at the facility, marking at least the second detainee death there in recent months following Francisco Gaspar-Andres, a 48-year-old Guatemalan man, late in 2025.[1] ICE reported he experienced "medical distress," with staff summoning on-site medical personnel who declared him deceased at 10:16 p.m.[1][2] However, the local medical examiner's preliminary findings indicated asphyxia due to neck and chest compression, prompting a possible homicide investigation.[1] Witness accounts from fellow detainees, including Santos Jesus Flores, contradicted the official narrative, alleging five guards choked Lunas Campos during a struggle after he resisted transfer to a segregation unit without his medications.[1] Flores reported hearing Lunas Campos repeatedly plead in Spanish, "I cannot breathe," before falling silent.[1] These claims, detailed in a Washington Post report, fueled renewed scrutiny of the camp's conditions, which human rights groups have criticized for abuse and inhumanity.[1][2] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) cited Lunas Campos's death as part of a pattern, noting 32 fatalities in ICE custody in 2025—the highest in nearly two decades—and renewed calls to close Camp East Montana, demanding congressional oversight and an end to unchecked violence.[2] Advocacy groups like United We Dream and Voto Latino linked the incident to escalated aggression under DHS leadership.[2] His case underscores ongoing debates over immigration detention practices as of early 2026.[1][2]