Records reveal details about Haitian ICE detainee’s death in Broward

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A grieving son reported that his suffering mother told him that she had been denied medical attention while at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Broward Transitional Center, records show.

A Broward County Sheriff’s Office detective reported that an ICE detainee at the BTC said Marie Ange Blaise “was complaining of chest discomfort” at about 2 p.m., on April 25, records about the investigation show.

Blaise’s son reported he talked to his mother over the phone at 5:54 p.m., and she was “having chest pains and abdominal cramps” when staff “refused” to help her to see a physician, records show…

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