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| title = Randal Alberto Gamboa-Esquivel<br />
| date = 2025-10-25<br />
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| country = Costa Rica<br />
| location_detail = Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica (died weeks after deportation from U.S. ICE custody)<br />
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| agencies = ICE<br />
| operation_type = Death following deportation from ICE custody<br />
| status = Costa Rican doctors reported brain damage and possible overmedication; not counted in U.S. figures.<br />
| people_affected = 1<br />
| deaths = 1 — medical (brain damage following ~10 months in ICE custody)<br />
| verification = source confidence: high<br />
| key_sources =<br />
* [https://ticotimes.net/2025/10/27/costa-rican-man-dies-after-health-decline-in-u-s-immigration-custody Tico Times]<br />
* [https://www.newsweek.com/sick-ice-detainee-airlifted-texas-us-dies-weeks-later-costa-rica-11356676 Newsweek]<br />
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'''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.<br />
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== Official account ==<br />
ICE deported him to Costa Rica in September 2025. Deaths after removal are not tracked in U.S. custody figures.<br />
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== What is documented ==<br />
* '''Person:''' Randal Alberto Gamboa-Esquivel, age 52; Costa Rica.<br />
* '''Location:''' Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica.<br />
* '''Agency:''' ICE (deported from custody).<br />
* '''Cause:''' medical — brain damage; possible overmedication during custody.<br />
* '''Circumstance:''' Held ~10 months in ICE custody, deported by air ambulance in a vegetative state, died weeks later.<br />
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== Scrutiny of the official account ==<br />
''Grounded in the sourced record below; this documents the dispute rather than asserting a conclusion.''<br />
* '''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.<br />
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== Unanswered questions ==<br />
# What care did he receive during ten months in ICE custody?<br />
# Was he fit to be deported in a vegetative state?<br />
# Will ICE release his full medical records from custody?<br />
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== Help document this death ==<br />
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* '''Submit a tip / report:''' [[ICE List:Submit incident|Submit an incident report]]<br />
* '''Upload photos or video:''' [[Special:Upload|Upload media to the ICE List]]<br />
* '''Identify an agent or vehicle:''' [[ICE List:Submit Agent|Submit agent information]]<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[:Category:Deaths by immigration enforcement]]<br />
* [[:Category:Deaths following deportation]]<br />
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