Mexican teen youngest to die in ICE custody since start of Trump's second term

A 19-year-old Mexican has become the youngest person to die in ICE custody since the start of Donald Trump's second term.

Royer Perez-Jimenez "died of presumed suicide" on Monday at the Glades County Detention Centre in south Florida, ICE said in a statement, although his official cause of death is still being investigated. He was also the 46th person to die in ICE custody since the start of US President Donald Trump's second term in January 2025, the 13th immigrant to die in ICE custody this year and the second this week.

ICE said an officer found Mr Perez-Jimenez "unconscious and unresponsive" just after 2.30am on Monday. Staff began performing CPR in a bid to revive him, but he was declared dead soon after.

The teenager, who had been in ICE custody for around a month, was arrested on 22 January by sheriff's officers in Volusia County in east-central Florida and charged with impersonating and resisting an officer, ICE said. Such deaths in immigration were "unacceptable.