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Lawmakers demand answers after a Haitian woman dies at an ICE detention center

Haitian immigrant Marie Ange Blaise, 44, died on Friday, April 25 in ICE detention at Broward Transitional Facility in Pompano Beach, FL. Blaise had been in ICE custody, transferred between several facilities, since Feb 14. According to Florida Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, the only Haitian-American member of Congress, Blaise had been denied adequate medical attention prior to her death. Cherfilus-McCormick and Representative Frederica Wilson, another south Florida Democrat, called for additional congressional oversight as well as an independent investigation. 

Without transparency and public oversight, we can hardly expect ICE to be held accountable for criminal abuse and negligence. As it stands, Congress requires ICE to make public reports about in-custody deaths within 90 days. According to ICE data, Blaise is the 7th person to die in ICE custody since the start of the 2025 fiscal year. It should raise alarms that all of our information about the conditions surrounding Blaise’s death and other deaths taking place in ICE custody come from ICE itself, including most of the information cited in the article. 

Broward Transitional Facility (BTC) is a private, for-profit prison (seeing profits to the tune of tens of millions of dollars annually) owned and operated by GEO group. BTC has seen many complaints of medical neglect, family separation, and more over the years. Biden refused to close BTC when GEO group’s contract last expired in 2021.

7 actions you can take right now:

  1. Jeanette Vizguerra, community leader and mother, was arrested by ICE in Colorado. Jeanette has been fighting her deportation case since 2009 and is a pillar to her community and family. She has organized and supported immigrant and human rights for years, she needs our support now.
  2. College Students/Faculty/Staff: Sign the ICE Noncompliance Pledge. When Trump abuses “Jewish safety” to justify deportations, we must spread the word to not comply.
  3. Respond to reports of suspected raids in your area in real time by reading and sharing the information in this 1-page guide. For those of us who are allies especially, learn how to watch for ICE and protect your neighbors.
  4. Updated for 2025: Never Again Action is equipping members to organize themselves into neighborhood groups (or “pods”) to be trained and respond to deportation threats on a hyperlocal level. Learn more and build or join a pod: bit.ly/BuildAPod2025
  5. Support Never Again Action’s organizing by making a donation today. You can make a tax deductible donation via our fiscal sponsor at this link, or you can donate directly to our 501(c)(4) organization at this link.
  6. New: Sign up for Inside the Deportation Dystopia: First hand Reports from ICE Detention Centers, webinar by Amnesty International Wednesday, May 21 8pm-9:30pm EST.
  7. New: Sign up for Siembra NC’s Avelo “Abduction Airlines” Mass Call to learn about the airline enabling ICE abductions and what you can do to stop its kidnapping flights. Online event, Thursday May 22 at 8pm EST.