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The wife of Manuel de Jesús Miranda, a 40-year-old Salvadoran who was detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Texas, reported that her husband only receives one of the three weekly dialysis sessions he needs to survive, despite having only a 5% kidney function.
The woman, identified only as Araceli to protect her immigration process, recounted the case on Noticias Telemundo on Friday and requested the immediate release of her husband for humanitarian reasons.
Miranda was arrested by ICE agents at a checkpoint while heading to work in the Fort Worth, Texas area.
"He was going to work, and when he was on his way to work, there in downtown Fort Worth, there was a checkpoint, and that's where they caught him," Araceli explained.
According to the woman, her husband needed dialysis three times a week—on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays—but the detention center where he is held only provides him with one session per week.
"He used to receive on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Now just one," he stated.
The lack of treatment has already had visible consequences. "Since he is not receiving the correct treatment as he should, he fainted on the day he received that dialysis," Araceli recounted, describing the episode as a troubling sign of her husband's deteriorating health.
Through video calls from the detention center in Texas, Miranda conveys to her family that her condition is worsening. Araceli described that her husband tells her he feels "sick, that he feels he can no longer hold on."
Miranda arrived in United States from El Salvador in 2019 and has three children aged six, 17, and 21 years.
The case is set against a backdrop of increasing concern over medical conditions in immigration detention centers. So far in 2026, at least 14 deaths have been recorded in ICE immigration prisons within just three months, according to data cited by the Telemundo report itself.
Texas has been one of the epicenters of this crisis. Between December 2025 and January 2026, six deaths were recorded in six weeks at state facilities, including three at the Camp East Montana center. One of the most notable cases was that of Geraldo Lunas Campos, a 55-year-old Cuban, whose death at that facility was classified as homicide by the autopsy, contradicting ICE's initial account.
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