ICE Deported a Man to a Place He'd Never Lived. Now He's Dead
Jimmy Aldaoud lived most of his life in America. Born a refugee in Greece, he came to the United States as a child. He was a member of the Chaldean Catholic minority, many of whose members fled Iraq following the second U.S. invasion. He did not speak Arabic and had never been to Iraq. But when he encountered legal issues in the United States, which his lawyer attributed to his his mental health issues including paranoid schizophrenia, he was deported to Iraq by the Trump Administration.
Now Aldaoud is dead, according to a Facebook post by his lawyer, who said he likely died because he could not obtain insulin in Iraq to treat his diabetes.
Rep. Andy Levin (D-Mich.) commented on Aldaoud’s death in a written statement to Politico, saying “Jimmy Aldaoud … should have never been sent to Iraq. My Republican colleagues and I have repeatedly called on the executive branch to cease deportation of such vulnerable people. Now, someone has died.”
Democratic presidential candidate and Washington governor Jay Inslee shared a video of Aldaoud shortly after he was deported. “Jimmy Aldaoud spent most of his life in the US. He died after being deported to Iraq, where he was homeless and could not speak Arabic or get insulin. The Trump administration did not just deport Jimmy — they handed him a death sentence,” Inslee said.
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