Indigenous Mayan Teen From Chiapas Is Youngest to Die in ICE Custody 8.4%
L.A. TACO - By Izzy Ramirez, Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Memo Torres - 3/19/2026, 11:04 PM
Royer Perez-Jimenez, a 19-year-old Mexican national, died of a “presumed suicide” on March 16 at the Glades County Detention Center in Moore Haven, Florida. According to reporting by Chiapas360, Royer Perez-Jimenez was from San Juan Chamula, an autonomous Tzotzil Maya community in Chiapas, Mexico. L.A. TACO confirmed with Odilia Romero... more