A 37-year-old man from Cameroon died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tuesday afternoon. Nebane Abienwi had been in ICE custody since Sept. 19, the government agency said in a release Wednesday. Abienwi is the seventh adult immigrant to die in ICE custody so far in 2019, according to data tracked by the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Twelve adult immigrants died in ICE custody in 2018 and 10 died in 2017. “Fatalities in ICE custody, statistically, are exceedingly rare and occur at a small fraction of the rate of the U.S. detained population as a whole.”

Source: Huffington Post October 03, 2019 16:30 UTC