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Woman from Haiti dies while in ICE custody at detention facility in Broward
Another detainee at the center told the Miami Herald that Blaise had been complaining about chest pains Friday. After her blood pressure measured with a top number of 156, the detainee said, Blaise was given some pills and sent to lie down. Later, “she started shaking, screaming, ‘My chest! My chest!’” the other detainee said. ICE said Blaise was pronounced dead at 8:35 p.m.
The agency says U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped Blaise as she started to board a flight to Charlotte from Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands without a valid immigrant visa.
[Rep for Haitian advocacy group] added that people with Temporary Protected Status and other legal protections from deportation are “being detained and transferred to ICE, who are traveling from U.S. territories [and] who should not be flagged as someone entering the U.S. when they are already in the U.S.”
Another detainee at the center told the Miami Herald that Blaise had been complaining about chest pains Friday. After her blood pressure measured with a top number of 156, the detainee said, Blaise was given some pills and sent to lie down. Later, “she started shaking, screaming, ‘My chest! My chest!’” the other detainee said. ICE said Blaise was pronounced dead at 8:35 p.m.
The agency says U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped Blaise as she started to board a flight to Charlotte from Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands without a valid immigrant visa.
[Rep for Haitian advocacy group] added that people with Temporary Protected Status and other legal protections from deportation are “being detained and transferred to ICE, who are traveling from U.S. territories [and] who should not be flagged as someone entering the U.S. when they are already in the U.S.”
