Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/us/ice-detention-deaths-immigrants.html
“They let him rot in there and die like he had no family,” said Presly Nelson, one of Mr. Damas’s brothers. Credit…Sophie Park for The New York Times
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.