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"... Outrage began to grow precisely with the news of the death of Maksym Chernayak, a 44-year-old Ukrainian who was in the country thanks to the humanitarian parole program, on February 20. As that news broke, so did the death of Genry Ruiz Guillén, a 29-year-old Honduran, who had died on January 23. Both died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and had been detained at Krome before being transferred to a hospital where they could not be saved. Details of each case are limited — in that of Ruiz Guillén, there isn’t even an official cause of death — and family members and lawyers are trying to clarify the sequence of events that led to the loss of life to determine whether the deaths could have been prevented.
...But, as things stand in 2025, the situation at Krome only sounded alarm bells when a video went viral in late March. In it, Mexican citizen Osiriss Azahael Vázquez Martínez secretly records the room where he is being held with dozens of other migrants. The images show men sleeping on the floor, on waiting room chairs, or even on a table. The subjects speak in low voices to each other, and a bright white light replacing the sun’s rays makes it impossible to tell the time of day. Then Vázquez Martínez hides under the table and speaks to the camera: “We are at the Krome Detention Center, here in Miami, Florida. We are being held captive. We are in deportation proceedings, but we have been here for more than 20 days; there are people who have been unable to communicate for more than a month. Please help us,” he says, tears beginning to well up in his eyes and his voice trembling with each word. According to the Miami Herald, which spoke with Vázquez Martínez, he was deported on March 14, three days after posting the video on TikTok.
After that video and three others posted by Vázquez Martínez were viewed millions of times, reports of the deplorable conditions at Krome began to dominate local news headlines in South Florida. In all of them, the voices of lawyers, family members, and detainees who have already been deported agree on several points: overcrowding, extreme shortages of food and liquids, lack of sufficient bathrooms, poor hygiene, increasing disease transmission, and poor and slow medical care for those who need it. ..."
‘There's a pattern': Ukrainian man is 3rd to die in ICE custody at Krome Detention Center
A Ukrainian woman says she finds herself alone in the United States after her husband fell ill and died in the custody of ICE in Miami-Dade County.
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‘There's a pattern': Ukrainian man is 3rd to die in ICE custody at Krome Detention Center
The wife of 44-year-old Maksym Chernyak, who spoke to NBC6 on condition of anonymity, claims her husband was not properly cared for at the Krome Detention Center when he started to feel sick.
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‘Inhumane conditions’ and death at Miami’s Krome migrant detention center
Growing reports of overcrowding and mistreatment at Florida’s largest immigration enforcement facility have sparked protests and are yet another example of the use of cruelty as a deterrent
‘Inhumane conditions’ and death at Miami’s Krome migrant detention center
Growing reports of overcrowding and mistreatment at Florida’s largest immigration enforcement facility have sparked protests and are yet another example of the use of cruelty as a deterrent
"... Outrage began to grow precisely with the news of the death of Maksym Chernayak, a 44-year-old Ukrainian who was in the country thanks to the humanitarian parole program, on February 20. As that news broke, so did the death of Genry Ruiz Guillén, a 29-year-old Honduran, who had died on January 23. Both died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and had been detained at Krome before being transferred to a hospital where they could not be saved. Details of each case are limited — in that of Ruiz Guillén, there isn’t even an official cause of death — and family members and lawyers are trying to clarify the sequence of events that led to the loss of life to determine whether the deaths could have been prevented.
...But, as things stand in 2025, the situation at Krome only sounded alarm bells when a video went viral in late March. In it, Mexican citizen Osiriss Azahael Vázquez Martínez secretly records the room where he is being held with dozens of other migrants. The images show men sleeping on the floor, on waiting room chairs, or even on a table. The subjects speak in low voices to each other, and a bright white light replacing the sun’s rays makes it impossible to tell the time of day. Then Vázquez Martínez hides under the table and speaks to the camera: “We are at the Krome Detention Center, here in Miami, Florida. We are being held captive. We are in deportation proceedings, but we have been here for more than 20 days; there are people who have been unable to communicate for more than a month. Please help us,” he says, tears beginning to well up in his eyes and his voice trembling with each word. According to the Miami Herald, which spoke with Vázquez Martínez, he was deported on March 14, three days after posting the video on TikTok.
After that video and three others posted by Vázquez Martínez were viewed millions of times, reports of the deplorable conditions at Krome began to dominate local news headlines in South Florida. In all of them, the voices of lawyers, family members, and detainees who have already been deported agree on several points: overcrowding, extreme shortages of food and liquids, lack of sufficient bathrooms, poor hygiene, increasing disease transmission, and poor and slow medical care for those who need it. ..."
