Anger As Mexican Teen Dies In Florida Jail Holding Ice Detainees

A 19-year-old Mexican migrant has died successful a Florida region jailhouse utilized for migrant detention, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has confirmed.

Royer Perez-Jimenez's decease connected Monday is nether investigation, though ICE stated he "died of presumed suicide". This marks nan 2nd decease successful ICE custody this week.

His decease brings nan full number of reported fatalities successful ICE custody to 46 since Donald Trump's management began, according to an Associated Press count. Mr Perez-Jimenez is besides nan youngest detainee to dice successful ICE custody during that period.

Earlier this week, an Afghan immigrant, whose family said he was evacuated aft assisting US forces, besides died successful a Texas infirmary aft detention. Requests for Mr Perez-Jimenez's autopsy study from The Office of The District 21 Medical Examiner stay unanswered. The Florida prosecutor’s agency referred inquiries to nan US Department of Homeland Security and nan US lawyer general’s office.

Mr Perez-Jimenez's decease has sparked condemnation wrong nan migrant community.

“Immigration detention strategy deprives group of freedom, isolates group distant from loved ones, and subjects group to abysmal conditions,” said Carly Pérez Fernández, communications head astatine Detention Watch Network, a nationalist conjugation advocating against migrant detention.

ICE said an serviceman recovered Perez-Jimenez “unconscious and unresponsive” astatine 2:34 a.m. connected Monday astatine Glades County Detention Center successful Moore Haven, a installation that President Joe Biden's management unopen down and nan Trump management reopened. Moore Haven is astir 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) northeast of Fort Myers.

The officers who recovered Perez-Jimenez “immediately” called a aesculapian emergency successful nan dormitory, and unit started cardiopulmonary resuscitation, said ICE. Two aesculapian unit arrived a fewer minutes later and wished Perez-Jimenez to beryllium without pulse, earlier nan presence of occurrence rescue deputies who “initiated life-sustaining interventions."

Perez-Jimenez was pronounced dormant astatine 2:51 a.m., 17 minutes aft he was recovered dead, ICE said.

The Mexican teen was arrested connected Jan. 22 by sheriff's officers successful Volusia County, a agrarian area located successful east-central Florida and charged pinch a felony for impersonation and resisting an officer, according to ICE. He was transferred to ICE custody a period later.

The AP requested nan apprehension study for Royer Perez-Jimenez from nan Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, providing nan afloat sanction listed successful nan ICE property merchandise and nan day of nan arrest. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office responded that it searched its system, and Perez-Jimenez does not look successful it.

Florida is 1 of nan states that aligns astir pinch nan Trump management connected migration matters and houses immoderate of nan astir well-known migrant detention centers, specified arsenic nan South Florida Detention Facility, besides known arsenic Alligator Alcatraz, and Krome North Service Processing Center. Some detainees person reported uncovering worms successful their food, non-functioning toilets and overflowing sewage.

Prolonged detention nationwide has go much communal during Trump’s existent term. This is partially owed to a caller argumentation that mostly prohibits migration judges from releasing detainees while their deportation cases make their measurement done overburdened courts.