{"id":19899,"date":"2025-06-27T19:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19899\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:51:12","slug":"man-who-died-in-ice-custody-among-dozens-of-canadians-in-immigration-related-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/19899\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who died in ICE custody among dozens of Canadians in immigration-related detention"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canadian Johnny Noviello, 49, who died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody is the 10th death in ICE custody this year.Alex Brandon\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Several dozen Canadians are currently in immigration-related detention in the United States, Global Affairs Canada confirmed Friday. <\/p>\n

This week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said a Canadian man, Johnny Noviello, 49, had died in its custody<\/a> in Florida. It is the 10th death in ICE custody this year. <\/p>\n

Mr. Noviello was a permanent resident of the United States and lived there for more than 30 years. In 2023, he was convicted of several drug-related charges. ICE arrested him on May 15 and charged him with removability because of his drug convictions. <\/p>\n

He was detained at a Federal Bureau of Prisons detention centre in Miami <\/b>pending deportation proceedings and was found unresponsive on June 23. ICE said he received medical attention but was pronounced dead less than an hour later. The agency said the cause of death is under investigation. <\/p>\n

Global Affairs Canada said consular officials provide assistance to Canadian citizens who have been detained. On Thursday, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand wrote on social media that Canadian consular officials were \u201curgently seeking more information from U.S. officials\u201d about Mr. Noviello\u2019s death. <\/p>\n

U.S. immigrants fear Trump\u2019s tightening dragnet<\/a><\/p>\n

Detention Watch Network, a non-governmental organization that seeks to abolish immigration detention in the U.S., said Mr. Noviello\u2019s death marks a \u201cgrim milestone\u201d in a sweeping roundup of non-citizens by U.S. authorities under President Donald Trump<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are currently more than 59,000 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, an all-time high. Trump\u2019s cruel detention expansion is exacerbating inhumane conditions and expanding human rights abuses, with increasing reports of death, medical neglect, [and] overcrowding,\u201d the NGO said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n

The group said 10 people have died in custody since January, when Mr. Trump\u2019s second presidency began. ICE\u2019s own statistics show that the majority of the fatalities have occurred in Florida and neighbouring Georgia. <\/p>\n

ICE said in its statement that it is committed to ensuring those in its custody are in \u201csafe, secure and humane environments\u201d and that medical care is provided. \u201cAt no time during detention is a detained illegal alien denied emergent care.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it is still not known how Mr. Noviello died, he had epilepsy and relied on medication. <\/p>\n

An agreement signed earlier this year by ICE and the Federal Bureau of Prisons lays out the procedures for the confinement of male immigration detainees at several U.S. prisons, including those held in as many as four units within the detention centre in Miami, where Mr. Noviello died. <\/p>\n

The agreement, which was obtained by the Miami Herald, states that in the event of a medical or mental health emergency, the Bureau of Prisons would \u201cimmediately provide necessary emergency medical treatment, including initial on-site stabilization and off-site transport to an appropriate emergent care facility, as needed or via ambulance as clinically indicated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The agreement also states that in the event of a death in custody, the deceased detainee should be turned over to the coroner as soon as possible. \u201cIn case of a questionable death, the Special Investigative Agent (SIA) will work in cooperation with ICE on any on-going investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The warden or the ICE district director, the agreement states, can order an autopsy after the death of any immigration detainee. <\/p>\n

Mr. Noviello is not the only Canadian to have died in ICE custody. In the summer of 2020, a 72-year-old Canadian died in hospital after he was held for nearly three months in a Virginia detention centre that had a major COVID-19 outbreak. Hundreds of detainees became infected with the coronavirus at the privately run facility operated on behalf of ICE, amid complaints of overcrowding and poor sanitation. <\/p>\n

James Hill, a former physician in Louisiana, was waiting to be deported after serving a 12-year sentence for writing OxyContin prescriptions without seeing patients. He had told relatives at the time that he had to sleep in a dorm with more than 80 men, with bunks crowded so closely together that sweat from other detainees dripped on him. He also said his lungs were irritated after guards used pepper spray to control detainees.<\/p>\n

In a May letter to federal officials, the American Civil Liberties Union and several other rights organizations flagged \u201ctroubling systemic failures\u201d in providing immigration detainees with access to legal support at FDC Miami.<\/p>\n

\u201cFDC-Miami has severely, and unlawfully, limited detained individuals\u2019 access to counsel by restricting access to telephone calls with attorneys,\u201d the letter says.<\/p>\n

The federal prisons agency has agreed to place ICE detainees at eight facilities across the country, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement to the Globe. <\/p>\n

The spokesperson said the bureau could not comment on the number of detainees housed at any particular facility for \u201cprivacy, safety, and security reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Canadian Johnny Noviello, 49, who died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2148,2138,671,104,2132,692,2147,2131,2143,2144,2140,2133,2130,79,407,746,2142,2137,2159,2134,2135,454,2139,1165,728,2149,108,2154,2155,50,2157,2152,2156,2150,2153,2136,85,2146,80,2145,2151,1458,158,1164,2141,1154,107,2158],"class_list":{"0":"post-19899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-news","38":"tag-northwest-territories","39":"tag-nova-scotia","40":"tag-nunavut","41":"tag-ontario","42":"tag-pei","43":"tag-photos","44":"tag-political-news","45":"tag-political-opinion","46":"tag-politics","47":"tag-politics-news","48":"tag-quebec","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-us-news","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}