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{{Infobox incident
| title              = Randal Alberto Gamboa-Esquivel
| date               = 2025-10-25
| city               =
| county             =
| state              =
| country            = Costa Rica
| location_detail    = Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica (died weeks after deportation from U.S. ICE custody)
| facility           =
| agencies           = ICE
| operation_type     = Death following deportation from ICE custody
| status             = Costa Rican doctors reported brain damage and possible overmedication; not counted in U.S. figures.
| people_affected    = 1
| deaths             = 1 — medical (brain damage following ~10 months in ICE custody)
| verification       = source confidence: high
| key_sources        =
* [https://ticotimes.net/2025/10/27/costa-rican-man-dies-after-health-decline-in-u-s-immigration-custody Tico Times]
* [https://www.newsweek.com/sick-ice-detainee-airlifted-texas-us-dies-weeks-later-costa-rica-11356676 Newsweek]
}}

'''Randal Alberto Gamboa-Esquivel''' (52, Costa Rica) died on or around 2025-10-25 in Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica, weeks after being deported from the United States by air ambulance in a vegetative state, following roughly ten months in ICE custody. Costa Rican doctors reported brain damage and possible antipsychotic overmedication.

== Official account ==
ICE deported him to Costa Rica in September 2025. Deaths after removal are not tracked in U.S. custody figures.

== What is documented ==
* '''Person:''' Randal Alberto Gamboa-Esquivel, age 52; Costa Rica.
* '''Location:''' Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica.
* '''Agency:''' ICE (deported from custody).
* '''Cause:''' medical — brain damage; possible overmedication during custody.
* '''Circumstance:''' Held ~10 months in ICE custody, deported by air ambulance in a vegetative state, died weeks later.

== Scrutiny of the official account ==
''Grounded in the sourced record below; this documents the dispute rather than asserting a conclusion.''
* '''Status / dispute:''' Costa Rican physicians attributed his condition to brain damage and possible overmedication in U.S. custody. Uncounted by ICE as a post-removal death.

== Unanswered questions ==
# What care did he receive during ten months in ICE custody?
# Was he fit to be deported in a vegetative state?
# Will ICE release his full medical records from custody?

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== See also ==
* [[:Category:Deaths by immigration enforcement]]
* [[:Category:Deaths following deportation]]

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