At least seven immigrants have died in the custody of the immigration and border police since the beginning of the year.
A 75 -year -old Cuban, almost six decades in the US, died in the custody of the immigration and border police (ICE) in Miami, in the same facilities where a Canadian died last week.
ICE reported that Isidro Pérez died on Thursday for causes still under investigation, after having been in the Krome detention center for weeks.
At this center, in early June, migrants there were a SOS with their bodies to ask for help and denounce the poor detention conditions.
Pérez was at the Krome medical unit, where on June 26 she began to feel chest pain and she was administered cardiovascular resuscitation, given shocks with an automatic external defibrillatorhaving been transferred to a hospital in Kendall, where he was declared dead, Ice said in a statement.
The agency detained the Cuban on January 5, during an operation in Key Largo, where they declared it Inadmissible to stay in the US, because despite arriving in 1966 with legal authorization, in 1981 and 1984 the Southern District Court of the State of Florida declared him guilty for possession of controlled substances.
This death happened after it was announced that on Wednesday A Canadian, Johnny Noviello, died while waiting, to be deported at the Federal Center of Detention, in the center of Miami, after already on June 7 he died Mexican Jesús Molina Veiawhen it was under ICE custody in the state of Georgia.
At least seven immigrants died in the ICE custody of what this year’s, according to the agency’s last report, until May 5, after almost dozens of death in 2024.
The death of the Cuban occurs as the reports of activists on the conditions of the detainees in Florida, such as the Krome Center.
