{"id":74117,"date":"2026-04-06T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/family-buries-19-year-old-mexican-man-who-died-in-ice-custody-they-fabricated-a-crime\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T12:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:01:13","slug":"family-buries-19-year-old-mexican-man-who-died-in-ice-custody-they-fabricated-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/family-buries-19-year-old-mexican-man-who-died-in-ice-custody-they-fabricated-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Family buries 19-year-old Mexican man who died in ICE custody: &#8220;They fabricated a crime&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Hundreds of people gathered Saturday for the burial of a young Mexican man who died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, with family members denouncing the &#8220;fabricated&#8221; charges that led to his detention and death.<\/p>\n<p>Royer Perez Jimenez, a 19-year-old from the municipality of San Juan Chamula in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/teen-dies-florida-immigration-detention-center-ice-glades-county-detention-center-moore-haven\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">died on March 16<\/a><\/span> at a detention center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>After the family received his body on Thursday, his uncle, Manuel Perez, said Royer was a &#8220;hard worker&#8221; who immigrated at 15 to &#8220;triumph and help his family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested in January on suspicion of resisting arrest and giving a false identity to law enforcement, but Perez insists he was confused because he was not fluent in English.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/06\/6e0b4d2e-af9d-493f-849f-51b36fd3301a\/thumbnail\/620x413\/e3f7cccf3c3490fff2ecf77fb1e2a078\/gettyimages-2269289985.jpg#\" alt=\"MEXICO-US-MIGRATION-FUNERAL \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/06\/6e0b4d2e-af9d-493f-849f-51b36fd3301a\/thumbnail\/620x413\/e3f7cccf3c3490fff2ecf77fb1e2a078\/gettyimages-2269289985.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/06\/6e0b4d2e-af9d-493f-849f-51b36fd3301a\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/034bf6ff4b4af8b232c05d0f2497444a\/gettyimages-2269289985.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Relatives and friends cry watching the coffin of Royer Perez Jimenez, a 19-year-old Mexican migrant who was found dead in a U.S. detention center, during his funeral in the Tzotzil indigenous community of San Juan Chamula, Chiapas state, Mexico on April 4, 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Luis AGUILAR \/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;He was unjustly accused as a criminal. &#8230; They fabricated a crime,&#8221; Perez told AFP, while also expressing the family&#8217;s doubts about the circumstances of his death.<\/p>\n<p>ICE officials said Royer died of an apparent suicide but the official cause of death remained under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we want is a thorough investigation because, unfortunately, we do not believe suicide was the cause of his death, rather we suspect it was probably a homicide,&#8221; Perez said.<\/p>\n<p>According to ICE, Perez Jimenez was evaluated by medical staff when he arrived at the immigration detention center in late February and answered &#8220;no&#8221; to all suicide screening questions, CBS News Miami <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/teen-dies-florida-immigration-detention-center-ice-glades-county-detention-center-moore-haven\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">reported<\/a><\/span>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/06\/353dfadc-8c1a-4fc2-8944-ae25c4e7daeb\/thumbnail\/620x465\/e02f62ee371da184d5907d99c4b89310\/gettyimages-2269289702.jpg#\" alt=\"MEXICO-US-MIGRATION-FUNERAL \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/06\/353dfadc-8c1a-4fc2-8944-ae25c4e7daeb\/thumbnail\/620x465\/e02f62ee371da184d5907d99c4b89310\/gettyimages-2269289702.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/04\/06\/353dfadc-8c1a-4fc2-8944-ae25c4e7daeb\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/e340d90af227f15effaca07cd08c24ae\/gettyimages-2269289702.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Relatives and friends carry the coffin of Royer Perez Jimenez, a 19-year-old Mexican migrant who was found dead in a U.S. detention center, during his funeral in the Tzotzil indigenous community of San Juan Chamula, Chiapas state, Mexico on April 4, 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Luis AGUILAR \/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At least 14 migrants of various nationalities have died in ICE custody in 2026, according to officials, amid President Trump&#8217;s ongoing immigration crackdown. In 2025, 31 ICE detainees died, a two-decade high, according to a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ice-detainee-deaths-two-decade-high-last-year\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">CBS News analysis<\/a><\/span> of ICE records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen Mexican nationals have died after contact with U.S. immigration authorities since Mr. Trump began his second term in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The rising death toll comes as\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ices-detainee-population-record-high-of-73000\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">ICE&#8217;s detention population<\/a><\/span>\u00a0hit record highs amid Mr. Trump&#8217;s aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration. As of early February, ICE was holding more than 68,000 people in detention centers across the U.S., agency figures show.<\/p>\n<p>But even after accounting for the number of people in detention each year, 2025 still had the highest death rate \u2014 5.6 people per 10,000 detainees \u2014 since 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, a CBS News analysis found.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/camilo-montoya-galvez\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Camilo  Montoya-Galvez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 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