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Lawmakers Seek Probe into Alien Detainee's Death Members of the House Judiciary Committee ask the investigative arm of Congress to find out whether the Department of Homeland Security is neglecting immigrants' health care in detention centers across the country. The request was prompted by a report on NPR last week about the death of a detainee named Richard Rust.

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Lawmakers Seek Probe into Alien Detainee's Death

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Lawmakers Seek Probe into Alien Detainee's Death

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Members of the House Judiciary Committee ask the investigative arm of Congress to find out whether the Department of Homeland Security is neglecting immigrants' health care in detention centers across the country.

The request was prompted by a report on NPR last week about the death of a detainee named Richard Rust. Rust had a heart attack and died last year at Oakdale Federal Detention Center in Louisiana after the prison's medical staff allegedly took at least 20 minutes to help him. And other immigrant detainees have also died recently in troubling circumstances.