Roll of Honor
Miguel Angel Ortiz
Incident
Location: Colorado Incident Date: Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Deportation Officer Miguel Ortiz died as a result of contracting COVID-19 while serving at the Aurora Contract Detention Facility at 3130 N. Oakland Street in Aurora.
Deportation Officer Ortiz was a United States Navy veteran and had served with the United States Department of Homeland Security - Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations for four years.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Deportation Officer Miguel Angel Ortiz died on August 30, 2021 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 51.
He is one of 884 officers honored here, and one of 13 at United States Department of Homeland Security - Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations.
Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.
Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife and three daughters.
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Deportation Officer Ortiz gave the United States Department of Homeland Security 4 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deportation Officer Ortiz.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Miguel Angel Ortiz served in the Navy (1990â1994) before joining law enforcement.
Deportation Officer Miguel Angel Ortiz is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In DC, 137 of 1,419 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 9.7% of this state's fallen. That is 0.6 percentage points above the national rate of 9.1%.
At United States Department of Homeland Security - Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations, 13 of 15 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 86.7% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Miguel Angel Ortiz's cause is highlighted.
How Miguel Angel Ortiz Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Miguel Angel Ortiz is highlighted in Aug.
Incident Location
Others Who Wore This Badge
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