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Honduran man with schizoaffective disorder dies in ICE custody after seizures

Genry Ruiz Guillén, a 29-year-old Honduran man with schizoaffective disorder, suffered seizures and fainting spells while held at Krome before dying in December 2024. Experts have questioned the official cause of death.

Feb 24, 2025·Miami, FL·Honduras·

Physicians for Human Rights📦,MuckRock+1📦,La Nación📦,El País📦,Nation of Change📦,Immigration Policy Tracking📦,Miami Herald📦,Washington Post,ACLU📦,Star Tribune📦,The Independent📦

Dominican man dies after three days in ICE custody in Puerto Rico

Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez, a 44-year-old Dominican man, died of a suspected hemorrhagic stroke in February 2025 after three days in ICE custody in Puerto Rico following a maritime interdiction.

Feb 23, 2025·San Juan, PR·Dominican Republic·

Physicians for Human Rights📦,El País📦,Nation of Change📦,Immigration Policy Tracking📦

Parents of three U.S. citizen daughters deported to Colombia after 35 years

Gladys and Nelson Gonzalez, married 35-year U.S. residents with three citizen daughters and active in church work, were deported to Colombia in February 2025 after a routine immigration check-in.

Feb 21, 2025·Orange County, CA·Colombia·

CNN📦,The Mercury News📦

Ukrainian man dies after delayed emergency response to stroke at ICE facility

Maksym Chernyak, a 44-year-old Ukrainian man who fled Russia's invasion, suffered a stroke at Krome after days without treatment for worsening symptoms. Staff reportedly delayed calling 911; he died two days later.

Feb 20, 2025·Miami-Dade County, FL·Ukraine·

CNN+1📦,Miami Herald📦,Washington Post📦,ACLU📦,Star Tribune📦,The Independent📦,Immigration Policy Tracking+1📦,El País+1📦,Nation of Change📦,Human Rights Watch📦,International Business Times

Venezuelan barber says Guantanamo guards beat him, denied lawyers before deportation

A Venezuelan barber was transferred to Guantanamo Bay in February 2025, where he says he was beaten, denied attorney and family calls, and attempted suicide twice before being deported to Venezuela.

Feb 20, 2025·El Paso, TX·Venezuela·

ProPublica📦,BBC📦,NPR📦

Construction worker held in isolation at Guantanamo before being deported

A 30-year-old Venezuelan construction worker was sent to Guantanamo Bay with his wife nearby, held 15 days in poor conditions, then deported to Honduras after nine months in custody.

Feb 20, 2025·El Paso, TX·Venezuela·

ProPublica📦,BBC📦,La Nación📦,Frontera Digital📦

Separated toddlers as young as 1 face deportation court without lawyers

Infants and toddlers as young as 1, separated from parents under a family separation policy, are facing deportation proceedings without any lawyer provided to them.

Feb 19, 2025·

PBS📦,Washington Post📦,Think Progress📦,Associated Press📦

Gambian man with heart conditions suffers stroke-like syndrome after ICE denies medications

A Gambian man with serious heart conditions was shackled and held at a New York facility, going two weeks without his heart medication before suffering a stroke-like episode. A judge ordered his release.

Feb 19, 2025·New York, NY·Gambia·

The Intercept📦,Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights📦,Central Current📦

Venezuelan man sent to Guantánamo in Trump deportation expansion

A 21-year-old Venezuelan man was sent to Guantánamo Bay despite having no criminal record beyond unauthorized entry; his mother disputes the government's account of an altercation used to justify his transfer.

Feb 19, 2025·Venezuela·

The Bulwark📦,Miami Herald📦,CNN📦,The Columbian📦,Latin Times📦,The Spectator

1-year-old Honduran boy separated from father faces immigration judge alone

A 1-year-old Honduran boy named Johan was separated from his father and faced immigration court proceedings alone, after his father was deported following an unfulfilled promise of reunification.

Feb 19, 2025·Phoenix, AZ·Honduras·

PBS📦,Washington Post📦,Think Progress📦,Associated Press📦

Border Patrol agent Andrew Josiah Segura faces charges related to detainee incident.

Border Patrol agent Andrew Josiah Segura was charged with assault and evidence tampering after allegedly assaulting a handcuffed detainee and threatening CBP employees in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on February 19, 2025.

Feb 19, 2025·Santa Teresa, NM·

PACER Monitor,U.S. Department of Justice📦,Border Report,Instagram📦

Man in fatal Indiana crash arrested by ICE faces deportation to Guatemala

A 49-year-old Guatemalan man, Domingo Juan Juan, was detained by ICE and faces deportation after a 2024 crash near Seymour, Indiana, that killed 27-year-old Brad Castner; he was charged only with driving without a license.

Feb 17, 2025·Seymour, IN·Guatemala·

WDRB Wave📦,The Republic,WISH-TV,WBIW

Trans asylum seeker sent to Guantánamo by ICE, housed with men

Tarlis Marcone De Barros Gonçalves, a transgender Brazilian asylum seeker, says she was housed with five men and searched by male guards after being flown to Guantánamo Bay, then shackled painfully during a transfer flight.

Feb 15, 2025·NM·Brazil·

Them📦,Center for Constitutional Rights📦,Triangle Free Press,CourtListener,The Free Radical

Ukrainian green card holder held two months after ICE Facebook Marketplace sting

Sergey Kostenyuk, a Spokane shed-builder who came from Ukraine as a child refugee, was detained for two months after agents posed as buyers on Facebook Marketplace; a judge ordered his release, finding he did not meet deportation criteria.

Feb 15, 2025·Spokane, WA·Ukraine·

Newsweek,KUOW📦,La Nación📦,Mwakilishi,EXA

Mexican worker arrested by ICE in Great Falls

Duran Valdivias, a Mexican citizen working for a local property manager, was arrested in Great Falls after a trespassing call brought an ICE agent to the scene; records show he had been stopped at the border five times in 2012.

Feb 13, 2025·Great Falls, MT·Mexico·

Montana Free Press📦

Immigrants sent to Guantanamo camp cut off from lawyers and families

Families sued after relatives, including 25-year-old Yoiker David Sequera, were flown from El Paso to a new 30,000-bed detention camp at Guantanamo Bay with no lawyer access or outside contact.

Feb 12, 2025·El Paso, TX·Venezuela·

USA Today+1📦,Associated Press+1📦

British entrepreneur on valid visa hospitalized after ICE denied him insulin

Harpinder Singh Chauhan, a 56-year-old British entrepreneur and father of two on a valid visa, had his insulin and inhaler confiscated in detention and collapsed in April with cardiac symptoms before being deported to the UK in June.

Feb 11, 2025·Florida, FL·United Kingdom·

Human Rights Watch📦,Economic Times📦,HuffPost📦

Venezuelan mother, two children deported from Tucson, separated from husband and sons

Maria Gonzalez, 32, and her two young children were deported to Mexico hours after a Tucson traffic stop, separating them from her husband and two older sons still in Tucson.

Feb 11, 2025·Tucson, AZ·Venezuela·

Arizona Luminaria📦,Calo News📦

Goleta father Roberto detained by ICE, partner left as sole provider

Roberto, a father from Goleta, was detained by ICE on February 11, leaving his partner as the family's sole provider while they seek help with bail and legal costs.

Social media onlyFeb 11, 2025·Goleta, CA·

Instagram📦

Venezuelan father separated from family, deported after fleeing Border Patrol

Mariano, a Venezuelan migrant who crossed the Darién Gap, fled Border Patrol in Tucson and hid under a car, separated from his wife and two children for days before being deported.

Feb 11, 2025·Tucson, AZ·Venezuela·

Arizona Luminaria📦,Imprint News📦,KJZZ📦,Tucson.com📦,Arizona Public Media📦,Tucson News Now📦

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