ICE Deaths Surge: Families Demand Answers

0:00President Nelson hit up a mall last week hunting for a suit to bury his brother a manuel demas who died in ice custody back in early March. Domas have been complaining about a toothache for two weeks straight, but Nelson says guards blew it off until it turned deadly, leading to sepsis and pneumonia. This fits a grim trend. The first 14 months of the second Trump term mark, the deadliest stretch in ice detention history, outside of the pandemic, year. As of late March, 45 folks have died in custody, with the detainee counts smashing records at over 70,000. Just Monday, another death hit, Jose Guadalupe Ramos, Solano, found unresponsive at a California center. Families like Nelson's are furious, calling out what they see as straight negligence. Nelson insists Domas was legally paroled, not some criminal as ice labeled him, and his arrest was over a mix up with his kid. His echo that by, saying fiscal year 2026 is barreling toward the highest death toll ever, fueled by mass arrests and jammed up.

1:03Facilities skipping alternatives like ankle monitors, scrutiny ramps up with more presumed suicides, like a 19-year-old in Florida and another in Texas, plus one case flipped to homicide from guard. Violence. Advocates pushback hard as the government pumps billions into expanding beds. While this spotlights, the human costs in the system, folks just want answers and real fixes before more lives slip away. This has been Durham News Today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with The Story.