By EFE
A 27-year-old Cuban died in custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Miami, as revealed by this agency on Friday, which represents the seventeenth death of this type so far in fiscal year 2026 and number 49 under the Administration of donald trump.
ICE stated in a statement that Aled Damien Carbonell Betancourt died from an “alleged suicide” on April 12, less than a month after indicating the same cause of death in the death, on March 16, of Royer Pérez Jiméneza 19-year-old Mexican who was also detained by this agency in Florida.
The agency now asserted that a guard at the Federal Detention Center (FDC) in downtown Miami he found the Cuban on April 12 at 6:30 a.m. (11:30 GMT) “in what appeared to be a suicide attempt.”
The officer, ICE maintained, called emergency services, but despite attempts to save him, the Miami Fire Department He was pronounced dead about an hour later.
“Carbonell Betancourt died of an alleged suicide; however, the official cause of death remains under investigation“said the report.
The immigration agents They found the Cuban in November 2025 in a Miami-Dade County jailwhere he was detained for “violently resisting an officer,” so on February 11 he was transferred to ICE custody, which ordered his deportation, the information note added.
The man entered the United States in October 2024 and an officer Customs and Border Protection (CPB) He was issued a summons for being an “immigrant without valid documents,” but was then released on parole.
Relatives of other victims and forensic experts They have previously questioned ICE for attributing to “suicides” the deaths of migrants, such as that of Nicaraguan Víctor Manuel Díaz and Cuban Gerardo Lunas Campos at Citadel Bliss, a detention center in the border city of El Paso, Texas.
The death of Carbonell Betancourt is the seventeenth known migrant in ICE custody so far this year and number 49 since Trump’s second term began, according to a record from the Miami Herald newspaper with extensive coverage in the communities and data from the immigration agency.
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