Rep. Ritchie Torres and George Latimer introduce bill requiring ICE to notify families of deaths and medical emergencies

Rep. Ritchie Torres and Rep. George Latimer introduced legislation Thursday that would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to notify families when a detainee dies, is hospitalized or experiences a medical emergency in custody.

The Families Deserve to Know Act comes after the lawmakers visited Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility in Newark, where Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died in ICE custody.