19-year-old Mexican migrant becomes youngest to die in ICE detention in Trump’s second term ^0%

MS NOW - By Clarissa-Jan Lim, Rosa Flores, Sara Weisfeldt - 3/20/2026, 4:27 PM

A 19-year-old Mexican migrant died earlier this week in federal immigration detention, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. Royer Perez-Jimenez died on Monday at the Glades County Detention Center in southern Florida, where he had been held since Feb. 26. He was the youngest person to have died in ICE custody since the start of... more