A 42-year-old immigrant who died in a Nassau County jail last week after his arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents was in good health and had no criminal record, his sister said Monday.

The family of Santos Banegas Reyes called for justice in the case and a full accounting of the death of a man his sister described as a robust construction worker who was heading to work last Wednesday when ICE detained him. He died the next morning at the Nassau County Correctional Center in East Meadow after 18 hours in custody.

Officials have not released details on the death.

"He didn’t have any diseases. He was well," his sister said in Spanish on Monday as she sat in the living room of the house in Nassau County that the siblings shared with other relatives. "We want to know the

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