2 deaths in less than a week in ICE Custody [View all]

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This is why congress needs to be able to gain access to these facilities. It is absurd that they are being detained and arrested for doing their job.

A 75-year-old Cuban man who arrived in the United States nearly six decades ago died Thursday after three weeks in immigration detention in Miami. Isidro Perez is the fifth person to die in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Florida this year. Half of all deaths since January in the agency’s custody nationwide have been in Florida.

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Perez’s death comes only days after Johnny Noviello, a 49-year-old Canadian man, was found unresponsive at the federal detention center in downtown Miami. The Trump administration has been holding ICE detainees at the facility for federal inmates since February as part of an agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article309702105.html#storylink=cpy
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Medical examiners ruled two deaths in January and February to be from natural causes, but a Miami Herald investigation found evidence of substandard or delayed medical care. Reporters requested autopsies and medical reports for the other three deaths but have yet to receive them.


Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article309702105.html#storylink=cpy