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Immigration and Customs Enforcement murdered 19-year-old Mexican migrant Royer Perez-Jimenez on March 16 while in custody.
Perez-Jimenez was found “unconscious and unresponsive” early Monday morning by an ICE officer at the Glades County Detention Center in Florida. Despite providing no evidence, ICE claims he “died of presumed suicide.”
According to intake records, he denied any behavioral health issues and answered “no” to all suicide screening questions.
Perez-Jimenez was arrested in Edgewater, Florida, on January 21 and charged with providing a false name to law enforcement and resisting arrest. A month later, he was transferred to federal custody, following collaboration between local police and federal immigration authorities.
The government of Mexico has called for an investigation, calling his death “unacceptable.”
Perez-Jimenez is the second immigrant to be killed in ICE custody within a week. Days earlier, Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal, an Afghan national, died in a Texas hospital after being taken into federal custody.
Paktyawal had previously collaborated with US forces during its criminal imperialist occupation of Afghanistan. He is at least the second former US asset from Afghanistan to be murdered by immigration authorities, highlighting how imperialism disregards its own lackeys once they can no longer use them.
2026 is on pace to be the deadliest year on record for ICE detainees, with more than a dozen reported deaths since January. Many rebellions have broken out at immigration detention centers across the country against the torturous conditions imposed by the old-state.
Image: Royer Perez-Jiminez. Credit: Volusia County Corrections.
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