Haitian man from Boston dies in ICE custody in Arizona. Family says untreated toothache became deadly infection.
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Lawmakers are demanding an investigation after a man from Haiti who was seeking asylum in Massachusetts died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Emmanuel Damas, 56, of Dorchester, died March 2 at a hospital in Arizona. He was taken into ICE custody in Boston in September 2025 and had been held at an ICE detention center in Florence, Arizona, for the last four months.
Last month, Damas told staff there he had a bad toothache; it got worse, and he was taken to the hospital on Feb. 19, according to his brother, Presly Nelson. The next day, Nelson said Damas was on life support in intensive care with pneumonia. On Feb. 23, Nelson said ICE told him Damas was back at the detention center in Florence, but there was no update on his condition.
Several days later, Nelson learned that his brother was in the hospital again and was scheduled to have surgery on Feb. 26. Damas died on Monday, March 2. It's still not clear what caused his death.
On Thursday, Massachusetts Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley wrote a letter to the heads of Homeland Security and ICE demanding answers.
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