A 49-year-old Canadian man detained by U.S. immigration authorities in South Florida has died in federal custody, marking one other dying in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) services this yr.
Johnny Noviello, a long-time U.S. resident initially from Canada, died on Monday, June 23, on the Federal Detention Middle in downtown Miami. ICE mentioned he was discovered unresponsive and that medical personnel instantly administered CPR and used an automatic exterior defibrillator earlier than calling emergency companies. The reason for dying is beneath investigation.
Noviello had lived in the US for many years. He entered legally in 1988 and have become a lawful everlasting resident (inexperienced card holder) in 1991. Nevertheless, he was convicted in 2023 in Volusia County, Florida, on a number of prices associated to drug trafficking and racketeering, and was sentenced to at least one yr in jail.
After serving his sentence, ICE brokers took him into custody on Could 15 at his probation workplace. He was awaiting deportation proceedings based mostly on his drug convictions, which beneath U.S. immigration regulation make an individual eligible for removing, even when they’re a authorized everlasting resident.
In response to the New York Times, no less than 10 immigrants have died in ICE custody within the six months since Jan. 1, together with two at a facility in Miami, the Krome detention middle, the place detainees earlier this month shaped a human “S.O.S.” signal within the yard. No less than two of the deaths had been suicides, in Arizona and Georgia.
Canada’s Minister of International Affairs, Anita Anand, confirmed through social media that Canadian consular officers have been notified and are “urgently in search of extra data” from U.S. authorities.
ICE, a department of the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety, mentioned in an announcement that the company is dedicated to offering a “protected, safe and humane” setting for all detainees and emphasised that “at no time throughout detention is a detained unlawful alien denied emergent care.”
Noviello’s dying is prone to renew scrutiny of the well being and security situations in U.S. immigration detention services, significantly amid rising considerations about medical care and transparency in federal custody.
