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It started with sharp pain in a tooth. For about a week, Emmanuel Damas sought treatment while he was being held at an Arizona immigration detention center, several detainees later told his family. But Mr. Damas, who had migrated from Haiti in 2024 under what was then a lawful U.S. program, was given only Ibuprofen, the detainees said.
Soon, one of his brothers received a call that Mr. Damas was in a hospital intensive care unit. By the time his relatives were allowed to visit him nine days later, Mr. Damas, 56, was on life support, unable to move or speak but still shackled to a hospital bed. An infection had spread throughout his body, and Mr. Damas had most likely gone into septic shock, according to federal officials and interviews with his relatives.
He could not even blink his eyes, one of his brothers, Presly Nelson, said in an interview. There was nothing there.
He died on March 2 one of 13 people who have died in federal immigration custody in the first three months of this year, and one of 46 who have died since President Trump took office last year and began his mass deportation campaign, according to death reports and news releases made public by ICE.
The Department of Homeland Security and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which have been leading the deportation effort, have faced growing scrutiny over agents aggressive, militarized tactics on American streets. And the killing of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota this year helped lead to the ouster of Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/us/ice-detention-deaths-immigrants.html?
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FILTHY MURDERERS!!!
MustLoveBeagles
(16,356 posts)Monsterous
snot
(11,804 posts)Chart at link: https://tinyurl.com/374fd7nd
bluestarone
(22,162 posts)Do we have any NAMES of who is working in these facilities? I will be surprised if we know every name of every employee.
malaise
(296,036 posts)Fake Xtians. Killing for Jebus the racist.
No words.
Skittles
(171,687 posts)popsdenver
(2,293 posts)these are only the ones we know about, and the true number of deaths is far far greater..........