A 67-year-old Jordanian man has died while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in Miami.

Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh, a Jordanian national who first arrived in the United States in 1994, died at Larkin Community Hospital (LCH) in Miami on October 11, according to an ICE press release. A physician listed his preliminary cause of death as cardiac arrest. ICE-ERO contacted the Consulate General of Jordan in Washington, D.C., via telephone and notified them of Saleh’s death.

Saleh first entered the U.S. in March 1994 on a temporary visa that allowed him to stay for six months, according to ICE. That July, he was convicted of welfare fraud in Broward County and sentenced to six months of probation before later obtaining lawful permanent resident status, also known as a green card.

Nearly two decades later, in 2018, Saleh was arrested again and convicted of conspiracy for food stamp and wire fraud, according to ICE. He was sentenced to 24 months in prison.

The following year, ICE officers in New Orleans encountered him at a correctional facility in Mississippi, where he was serving time for what the agency described as “aggravated felonies for conspiracy to commit fraud, deceit or revenue loss to the government, and conviction of two crimes involving moral turpitude” (the latter of which is a vague legal term that generally refers to offenses considered immoral or dishonest).

In August 2019, an immigration judge terminated Saleh’s immigration case without prejudice, meaning the government could refile it later on, according to ICE. The following month, the Bureau of Prisons transferred him to ICE custody in Louisiana.

In February 2020, another immigration judge ordered Saleh deported to Jordan. But that June, ICE released him from detention under an “order of supervision,” which allowed him to live in the U.S. while checking in regularly with the agency through its so-called “Alternatives to Detention” program.

On September 14, 2025, ICE officers arrested Saleh again in Pompano Beach “pursuant to his final order of removal” and transferred him to the Krome Detention Center for removal proceedings.

Less than a month after arriving at the troubled immigration facility in west Miami, on October 10, Saleh was taken to LCH with a fever and was admitted for further treatment. The following day, LCH medical staff found him unresponsive. Although they began CPR and briefly resuscitated him, he soon lost his pulse and was pronounced dead.

ICE says Saleh had a “significant” medical history, including hypertension, heart disease, renal disease, and diabetes.

Saleh is at least the seventeenth person to die in ICE custody since January, according to The Guardian.

Since January, those deaths have included 29-year-old Honduran Genry Ruiz-Guillen, who died of complications from schizoaffective disorder at Krome; 44-year-old Ukrainian national Maksym Chernyak, whose wife told NBC 6 he didn’t receive adequate medical care; 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise of Haiti at the Broward Transitional Center; and 49-year-old Canadian Johnny Noviello, who died after six weeks in immigration detention in downtown Miami.

As ICE has ramped up its immigration enforcement under pressure from President Donald Trump, immigration detention centers across the country – including Krome – have found themselves plagued by reports of overcrowding and poor conditions. In late July, Americans for Immigrant Justice, Human Rights Watch, and Sanctuary of the South published a 92-page report detailing alleged widespread mistreatment of migrants detained at Krome, Broward Transitional Center, and the Federal Detention Center in Miami.

According to the report, migrants at the federal facility were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from Styrofoam plates “like dogs.” Female detainees at Krome said they were made to use toilets in full view of men, denied gender-appropriate care, and given inadequate food and access to showers.

This is a breaking story and will be updated as events warrant.