<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the death of a detainee at a Texas detention camp this month, the agency initially gave no cause of death. A fellow detainee said he </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/17/detainee-death-witnesses-deported-dhsa/?utm_source=podcasts&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=post-reports" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"> to death by guards; ICE said “staff observed him in distress.”&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">Seeking answers, Lunas Campos’s family called El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner, and an employee told them that – subject to the result of a toxicology report – </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/15/ice-detention-death-homicide/?utm_source=podcasts&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=post-reports" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">the office is likely to classify Lunas Campos’s death as a homicide</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">Today on “Post Reports,” investigative reporter Douglas MacMillan tries to find out what really caused the death of a detainee – and takes us inside the black box of </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/16/ice-detention-center-immigration-violations/?utm_source=podcasts&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=post-reports" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">the largest detention camp in the United States</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">Today’s show was produced by Emma Talkoff. It was edited by Ariel Plotnick, Dennis Funk and Martine Powers and mixed by Sean Carter.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">Thanks also to Juliet Eilperin.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">Subscribe to The Washington Post </span><a href="https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/acquisition/?s_l=OFFSITE_PODCAST&amp;p=s_v&amp;s_dt=yearly&amp;utm%5B%E2%80%A6%5De-podcast&amp;utm_medium=acq-nat&amp;utm_campaign=podcast-subs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">here</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">.</span></p>