Reports emerged this week of
the ⛔️death of two more immigrants in the custody of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Emmanuel #Damas, 56,
a Haitian asylum seeker,
reportedly died from an infection linked to a toothache that his family said went
untreated for two weeks while Damas was incarcerated at the Florence Correctional Center in Arizona.
Damas’s death was first reported by the Arizona Daily Star on March 4.
That day, ICE announced that 48-year-old Alberto #Gutierrez-#Reyes had died in a California hospital on February 27 after falling ill at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center,
-- where the population has skyrocketed in recent months.
Damas appears to be
the 👉tenth person to die while in ICE custody in 2026,
which would bring the total number of people to die while incarcerated by the agency under Donald Trump to 💥at least 39.
“Nobody should die from a toothache,”
Chandler City Councilwoman
Christine Ellis, a Haitian American and registered nurse representing the Arizona community near the prison where Damas was incarcerated told the Arizona Daily Star.
“Something has to be done."
https://truthout.org/articles/kristi-noem-is-leaving-a-trail-of-death-behind-her-in-ice-jails/






