ADELANTO, Calif. (KABC) -- Ismael Ayala-Uribe spent five weeks at the Adelanto detention center before his health rapidly declined. The 39-year-old died Monday, according to a statement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement .

He was alone in a hospital and miles away from his family at the time of his death. His mother, Lucia Ayala, said she never got the chance to hold her son one last time.

"I have this weight on my chest. No matter how much I want to cry out loudly, I can't," she said in Spanish.

Ayala was a Mexican immigrant who came to the United States as a child. He received protection under DACA in 2012, but renewal was denied after two DUI arrests. In August, ICE agents detained him at the Huntington Beach car wash where he worked.

"They took him while he was work

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