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Teenager becomes youngest person to die in ICE detention in Trump’s second term

view of the back of a man wearing a jacket that reads 'police ice'
At least 10 other people have died in ICE custody so far this year. Photograph: Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images

A teenager held at a US immigration detention facility in Florida died this week, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said on Thursday, the youngest person to die in ICE custody since Donald Trump took office last year.

Royer Perez-Jimenez, 19, originally from Mexico, was found “unconscious and unresponsive” in his room on 16 March at the Glades county detention center in Moore Haven, Florida, according to the ICE press release.

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