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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Alba Asenjo Domínguez

Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death

Woman with long hair in black T-shirt standing indoors in front of plants.
Daphy Michel, an asylum seeker from Haiti who died on 2 March in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Courtesy of Michel family via AP

The family of a Haitian immigrant who froze to death in early March at a bus shelter in Pittsburgh after she was dropped off in the city by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is poised to file a lawsuit this month against the United States and “multiple other governmental and non-governmental entities”, the Guardian has learned.

Daphy Michel, 31, had been in county jail for six months after a reported mental health crisis and street incident, and then was arrested by ICE before being released with a ankle monitor.

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