A MAN being held in custody at an immigration facility in New Jersey has died, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) confirmed on Monday.

This is the second such death at the facility in less than a year.

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died on Saturday at a Newark hospital after experiencing a medical emergency at the Delaney Hall detention facility, Ice said in a statement on Monday.

Officials have not yet determined an official cause of death.

Ice records show Mr Lopez-Cornejo was first detained and deported after crossing into the US without authorisation in 2006. 

He returned to the country at a later point and was picked up again by agents in Plainfield, New Jersey, in mid-June this year, before being held at Delaney Hall.

He leaves behind a 12-year-old daughter, his family said.

Mr Lopez-Cornejo had reportedly lived with diabetes, high blood pressure and seizures, and immigration campaigners say he had been denied his medication while in detention. 

His death comes eight months after another detainee Jean Wilson Brutus died at the same facility following a medical emergency in December.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said: “In less than a year, yet another family is forced to endure the unimaginable loss of a loved one while in custody at Delaney Hall.”