2026年4月6日 / 美国东部时间早上7:10 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
数百人于周六聚集，参加一名死于美国移民海关执法局（ICE）羁押的年轻墨西哥男子的葬礼，家属谴责导致他被拘留并最终死亡的罪名是“捏造”的。
罗耶尔·佩雷斯·希门尼斯年仅19岁，来自墨西哥南部恰帕斯州圣胡安查穆拉市，于3月16日在佛罗里达州的一处拘留中心死亡。
家属于周四认领遗体后，他的叔父曼努埃尔·佩雷斯表示，罗耶尔是个“努力工作的人”，15岁时移民美国，只为“打拼并帮助家人”。
他于1月被捕，罪名是拒捕和向执法人员提供虚假身份，但佩雷斯坚称罗耶尔当时因英语不流利而陷入混乱。
2026年4月4日，在墨西哥恰帕斯州圣胡安查穆拉的佐齐尔族原住民社区举行的葬礼上，亲属和朋友望着罗耶尔·佩雷斯·希门尼斯的棺椁痛哭。这名19岁墨西哥移民被发现死于美国拘留中心。路易斯·阿吉拉尔/法新社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄
“他被不公正地指控为罪犯……他们捏造了一项罪名，”佩雷斯告诉法新社，同时也表达了家人对他死亡情况的怀疑。
美国移民海关执法局官员表示，罗耶尔显然死于自杀，但官方死因仍在调查中。
“我们想要的是彻底的调查，因为不幸的是，我们不认为死因是自杀，反而怀疑很可能是他杀，”佩雷斯说。
据美国移民海关执法局称，迈阿密哥伦比亚广播公司新闻报道，佩雷斯·希门尼斯于2月底抵达移民拘留中心时接受了医护人员的评估，在所有自杀筛查问题上都回答了“否”。
2026年4月4日，在墨西哥恰帕斯州圣胡安查穆拉的佐齐尔族原住民社区举行的葬礼上，亲属和朋友抬着罗耶尔·佩雷斯·希门尼斯的棺椁。这名19岁墨西哥移民被发现死于美国拘留中心。路易斯·阿吉拉尔/法新社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄
据官员透露，2026年以来已有至少14名不同国籍的移民在美国移民海关执法局羁押期间死亡，此时正值特朗普总统持续推进的移民打击行动。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻对美国移民海关执法局记录的分析显示，2025年共有31名移民拘留者死亡，达到二十年来的峰值。
自特朗普2025年1月开启第二任期以来，已有14名墨西哥公民在与美国移民当局接触后死亡。
随着特朗普政府对非法移民采取强硬打击措施，美国移民海关执法局的羁押人数创下新高，死亡人数也随之上升。该局数据显示，截至2月初，美国全国各拘留中心的羁押人数超过6.8万人。
但哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的分析发现，即便将每年羁押人数计算在内，2025年的死亡率仍达到每万名被羁押者5.6人，是2020年新冠疫情暴发以来的最高值。
卡米洛·蒙托亚-加尔维斯为本报道供稿。
Family buries 19-year-old Mexican man who died in ICE custody: “They fabricated a crime”
April 6, 2026 / 7:10 AM EDT / CBS/AFP
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 “fabricated” charges that led to his detention and death.
Royer Perez Jimenez, a 19-year-old from the municipality of San Juan Chamula in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, died on March 16 at a detention center in Florida.
After the family received his body on Thursday, his uncle, Manuel Perez, said Royer was a “hard worker” who immigrated at 15 to “triumph and help his family.”
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.
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. Luis AGUILAR /AFP via Getty Images
“He was unjustly accused as a criminal. … They fabricated a crime,” Perez told AFP, while also expressing the family’s doubts about the circumstances of his death.
ICE officials said Royer died of an apparent suicide but the official cause of death remained under investigation.
“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,” Perez said.
According to ICE, Perez Jimenez was evaluated by medical staff when he arrived at the immigration detention center in late February and answered “no” to all suicide screening questions, CBS News Miami reported.
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. Luis AGUILAR /AFP via Getty Images
At least 14 migrants of various nationalities have died in ICE custody in 2026, according to officials, amid President Trump’s ongoing immigration crackdown. In 2025, 31 ICE detainees died, a two-decade high, according to a CBS News analysis of ICE records.
Fourteen Mexican nationals have died after contact with U.S. immigration authorities since Mr. Trump began his second term in January 2025.
The rising death toll comes as ICE’s detention population hit record highs amid Mr. Trump’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.
But even after accounting for the number of people in detention each year, 2025 still had the highest death rate — 5.6 people per 10,000 detainees — since 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, a CBS News analysis found.
Camilo Montoya-Galvez contributed to this report.
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