He slept on the floor, freezing. A Death in Trump’s ICE Detention: The 13th Fatality of 2025.

He slept on the floor, freezing. A Death in Trump’s ICE Detention: The 13th Fatality of 2025.

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He slept on the floor, freezing. Now, 75-year-old Cuban-American Isidro Perez has died in Trump’s ICE custody, becoming the 13th person to die in U.S. immigration detention this year.

His death has reignited national outrage over the treatment of elderly and medically vulnerable detainees.

Perez, a longtime Florida resident who had lived in the U.S. since 1966, was arrested on June 5 in Key Largo and detained at the Krome Detention Center in Miami-Dade.

Despite his age and serious heart problems, he was held on immigration charges stemming from two drug convictions from the 1980s — more than 40 years ago.

He was hospitalized on June 17 for unstable angina, discharged on June 25, and died the next day after reporting chest pains again.

Unstable angina is a serious heart condition that causes sudden chest pain, usually due to reduced blood flow to the heart.

As the Trump administration ramps up immigration detention to meet its stated goal of deporting millions, reports indicate that only around 30,000 people have been detained so far.

In an effort to close that gap, ICE has intensified enforcement — including the use of decades-old convictions.

In Perez’s case, ICE located his drug convictions from 1981 and 1984 through federal databases and court records, using them to charge him with “inadmissibility” under immigration law — despite more than 40 years of clean living and no recent offenses.

Perez’s family members say he was sleeping on the floor, freezing, and denied proper care.

Critics argue that detaining a 75-year-old man with no recent criminal record and no realistic chance of deportation was both unnecessary and inhumane.

Perez’s death is not just a statistic — it’s a warning. A system that forgets compassion is not justice.

On social media, many are sounding the alarm about the growing number of people dying in Trump’s ICE custody, while much of the elite media remains distracted by one political spectacle after another.

The conditions being described are inhumane, and on social media the outrage is growing louder by the day.

One user wrote, “The 13th death… that we know of. There are MANY more. Don’t be fooled.”

Another added, “They don’t care.

Our government does not care about human beings.

Others called it “genocide,” and some questioned how many more would die before the public fully grasps the scale of what’s happening.

People are dying in detention — freezing, sick, and forgotten — while the system moves forward with no accountability.

Isidro Perez’s death has become a rallying cry among advocates, not just for immigration reform, but for basic human dignity.

This isn’t just about one man.

It’s about a system that punishes instead of rehabilitates, detains instead of heals, and forgets that justice without mercy is no justice at all say critics, as echoed across social media.

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