Haitian man from Boston dies in ICE custody in Arizona. Household says untreated toothache grew to become lethal an infection.

Lawmakers are demanding an investigation after a person from Haiti who was searching for asylum in Massachusetts died within the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, of Dorchester, died March 2 at a hospital in Arizona. He was taken into ICE custody in Boston in September 2025 and had been held at an ICE detention middle in Florence, Arizona, for the final 4 months.

Final month, Damas informed employees there he had a foul toothache; it received worse, and he was taken to the hospital on Feb. 19, based on his brother, Presly Nelson. The subsequent day, Nelson stated Damas was on life help in intensive care with pneumonia. On Feb. 23, Nelson stated ICE informed him Damas was again on the detention middle in Florence, however there was no replace on his situation.

A number of days later, Nelson realized that his brother was within the hospital once more and was scheduled to have surgical procedure on Feb. 26. Damas died on Monday, March 2. It is nonetheless not clear what induced his dying.

On Thursday, Massachusetts Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley wrote a letter to the heads of Homeland Safety and ICE demanding solutions.

“ICE’s failure to offer well timed medical care to Mr. Damas seems to have contributed to his worsening medical situation and tragic dying,” they wrote. “Mr. Damas’s household has alleged that ICE failed to offer Mr. Damas with well timed medical care, permitting an untreated toothache to develop into a lethal an infection.”

Of their letter, Pressley, Markey and Warren stated Damas’s dying was “extremely preventable” and the case “raises severe questions concerning ICE’s capability to well timed deal with and care for people it detains.”

Pressley stated Damas is at the very least the tenth individual to die in ICE custody this yr.

CBS Information Boston reached out to ICE Thursday afternoon for touch upon the Damas case.

“We’re engaged on a launch on this problem. As quickly as its accredited, I will be sure to get it,” ICE spokesman Tim Oberle replied in an electronic mail.

The press launch had not been issued as of Friday morning.