A longtime Michigan resident who had never been to Iraq but was deported there in June died at the age of 41 after he couldn't get insulin to treat his diabetes, supporters say. 'His death could have and should have been prevented,' Rep. Levin says.
A longtime Michigan resident who had never been to Iraq but was deported there in June died this week after he couldn't get insulin to treat his diabetes, supporters said Thursday.
"Jimmy died tragically yesterday of a diabetic crisis. His death could have and should have been prevented, as his deportation was essentially a death sentence," Aldaoud's congressman, Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., said in a statement Wednesday. When ICE moved to deport him, Greece would not accept him and he was eventually sent to Iraq. Aldaoud didn't speak Arabic, did not have any family in Iraq and is Chaldean Catholic, a Christian group that has been persecuted in Iraq in the past."I was deported two and a half weeks ago," he says in the video."I begged them, I said, 'Please I've never seen that country, I've never been there.' However they forced me and I'm here now.
"This is a poor family," he said."The cost of a family of five getting citizenship, between attorneys' fees and filing fees, we’re talking over $10,000, and for a refugee family with low income that’s a difficult to come up with."“Jimmy’s death has devastated his family and us," Miriam Aukerman, a lawyer with ACLU of Michigan, said in a statement."We knew he would not survive if deported. What we don’t know is how many more people ICE will send to their deaths.
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