Venezuelan immigrant detained in Detroit by border agents tried to take his life

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "When individuals violate immigration laws, their choices make them subject to detention and removal," Beckham said.
61% : He doesn't have the data for previous years and has been trying through FOIA requests with CBP to get more information.
61% : CBP defends policies and detentions CBP Assistant Commissioner Hilton Beckham defended the agency in a statement last month to the Free Press, released by a spokesman for CBP in Michigan.
60% : An immigrant from Venezuela tried to take his life by hanging himself while in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last month, an official and advocates said this week.
60% : About 100 of the 213 cases were first-time encounters with CBP, said officials with the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center.
55% : "While CBP did encounter just over 200 aliens from Jan. 20 to March 21, only approximately half of those were detained and turned over to ICE/ERO (Enforcement Removal Operations branch of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) after CBP secondary processing was complete," the CBP spokesman said.
55% : Marty Raybon, director of field operations at the Detroit Field Office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, defended the facility in a post on X after Tlaib's visit, saying immigrant detainees are "treated with dignity and respect.
55% : But what's different now is that CBP is holding them in their own facility for long periods of time even though the agency is not equipped traditionally to house inmates.
54% : What CBP told Tlaib last month "conflicts with ... what our client shared with us previously," Sauvé said.
54% : " Regarding the issue of wrong turns onto the bridge and tunnel, CBP said that they are following a "routine procedure" when they check on the legal status of people who want to cross back into the U.S. There are many signs on the highways in metro Detroit alerting drivers they will enter Canada if they're in a particular lane, CBP said.
53% : " In a statement to the Free Press Wednesday evening, a spokesman for CBP in Michigan explained what the agency said happened. "CBP officers are trained to observe, respond to, and take action to thwart any attempt at self-harm, and at no time was a detainee in our custody able to follow through with an attempt on their life," he said.
48% : "CBP is aware of instances where individuals, including illegal aliens, have made unintended entries into Canada from Michigan ports of entry, or attempted to re-enter the United States without proper documentation," the CBP spokesman said Wednesday.
45% : But CBP said their officers saved the man's life by acting swiftly to stop the attempted suicide and transported him to a hospital.
45% : Robinson also questioned how CBP decided that 40 of the immigrants detained were members of Tren de Aragua In the case of Sarahi, the immigrant mother from Guatemala who lives in Detroit with two girls who are both U.S. citizens, ages 1 and 5, the family was detained after accidentally entering the lane to the Ambassador Bridge while on their way to Costco for some weekend shopping, Robinson said.
44% : The incident, which took place in the second week of March, illustrates what immigrant advocates say are poor conditions that detainees in the custody of federal immigration agencies in Detroit are facing as the U.S. toughens immigration enforcement.
44% : The Venezuelan citizen was one of 213 immigrants who were detained in Detroit by U.S. Customs and Border Protection over a two-month period after President Donald Trump took office in January, according to data the agency provided to Tlaib.
42% : "There's also a detention site at the tunnel, and so what CBP told Rep. Tlaib was that a Venezuelan man, they claimed from Tren de Agua, was in a holding cell and officers observed him trying to hang himself, and they intervened.
40% : A CBP spokesman said the facility that's being criticized "was established by CBP at the Port of Detroit in the event aliens including family units with no legal status in the U.S. needed to be temporarily housed, while they awaited transfer to ICE custody.
37% : CBP disputed some of the data provided by Tlaib to the center, saying it's not completely accurate.
23% : A spokesman in Michigan for U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the man who attempted suicide was a citizen of Venezuela and was later turned over on March 15 to a detention facility that contracts with the Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) branch of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
18% : CBP told Tlaib that 40 of the people detained were gang members with Tren de Aragua, which the Trump administration has said is a growing threat and is part of the reason they're toughening immigration enforcement.

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