June 3 (UPI) -- A transgender asylum seeker who was held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement died four days after she was released from custody, U.S. authorities said on Monday.
Johana Melinda Leon, 25, fled from El Salvador to the United States seeking political asylum. She complained of chest pains on Tuesday while in custody at the Otero County, N.M., ICE processing center and was sent to the Del Sol Medical Center in El Paso. She died at the hospital on Saturday, ICE officials said, the day she requested an HIV test and learned it had come back positive.