Today my professor picked up a garter snake, said âOw!â five times as it bit him, set it back down, and said, âOkay. Thatâs one defense mechanism snakes have.â
19-year-old Royer Perez-Jimenez appears to be the youngest person to die in ICE custody since the Trump Administration took office. Compared
Royer Perez-Jimenez, a 19-year-old Mexican national, died of a âpresumed suicideâ on March 16 at the Glades County Detention Center in Moore Haven, Florida.
According to reporting by Chiapas360, Royer Perez-Jimenez was from San Juan Chamula, an autonomous Tzotzil Maya community in Chiapas, Mexico. L.A. TACO confirmed with Odilia Romero of Cielo that Perez-Jimenez is, in fact, Mayan Tzotzil. He is a native of the Rancho Narvaez community. In Chiapas360âs reporting, they state that the family is requesting support to repatriate the body of Perez-Jimenez.
According to the ICE press release, Perez-Jimenez was found âunconscious and unresponsiveâ at approximately 2:34 a.m. that day by a detention officer, who called medical personnel. After medical personnel determined Perez-Jimenez had no pulse, they requested EMS, who arrived at roughly 2:42 a.m. The young man was declared deceased by 2:51 a.m. The cause of death is still under investigation.
According to Union-Bulletin, the Glades County Detention Facility has faced allegations of medical neglect in recent years. Congressional representatives called for the closure of the facility in a 2022 letter to the Department of Homeland Security. In response, the Biden Administration limited usage of the facility and raised concerns about its lack of medical care.
In 2025, the Trump administration announced that the facility would again hold detainees.
ICE alleges that Perez-Jimenez was screened by medical staff when he was initially taken into custody and stated ânoâ to all suicide screening questions.
There were initially five alleged suicides in ICE custody before Perez-Jimenez: Chaofend Ge, Jesus Molina-Veya, Brayan Rayo-Garzon, Victor Manuel DĂaz, and Geraldo Lunas-Campos. However, the death of Lunas-Campos in Camp East Montana was later ruled a homicide by the El Paso County Medical Examiner.
According to ICE, Perez-Jimenez had first attempted to come into the United States in 2022, where he was encountered by U.S. Border Patrol and was given a âvoluntary returnâ back to Mexico that same day. He later entered the United States on an unknown date.
According to the arrest affidavit obtained by Volusia County Court and reporting by Miami New Times, Perez-Jimenez was initially detained by the Edgewater Police Department on January 21 at approximately 9:41 p.m. for driving a scooter across multiple lanes of traffic without using a crosswalk and riding the scooter on a sidewalk.
At approximately 9:30 p.m., Edgewater Police Department Sergeant Castellano attempted a traffic stop by activating the patrol vehicleâs emergency lights at the intersection of Sunset View Drive and Roberts Road. Castellano then exited the vehicle with one Officer Lockhart and gave verbal commands to Perez-Jimenez to stop. According to the report, the teen âintentionally avoided the patrol vehicle by crossing over the grass and back across the street in an attempt to evade law enforcement.â
Perez-Jimenez reportedly continued to ride off for approximately a quarter of a mile before coming to a full stop on the sidewalk. Police allege he refused verbal commands to step off the scooter and sit on the ground. Officer Lockhart then made an attempt to escort Perez-Jimenez to the ground, but he reportedly tensed up and attempted to pull away. Officer Lockhart was able to take Perez-Jimenez to the ground, but reported that Perez-Jimenez continued to resist by pulling away and trying to tuck his hands under his body.
At this point, after gaining control of the teenâs body, Perez-Jimenez identified himself as âDaniel Jimenseâ and provided a different birthdate than his own. Sgt. Castellano would then walk the path that Perez-Jimenez took to locate any possible discarded items, during which Castellano witnessed another male who was dressed âexactly the same as the first male, coming from the same location, riding on the exact same make/model scooter.â
Castello stopped the male to question him as well, and the male provided the name of âDaniel Gonzales.â The male did not speak English and could not provide identification, so Castellano contacted a translator over the phone. They spoke with âGonzales,â who had also provided false names and birthdates.
Both men were arrested, taken into custody, and transported to the Edgewater Police Department for processing. Both men spoke with Deputy Garcia, at which point Perez-Jimenez gave the name âRogelio Perezâ and reportedly admitted that he had overstayed his visa and was currently in the United States illegally. He also allegedly advised them that he had no documentation to prove his name or date of birth.
At this point, Deputy Garcia spoke with Deportation Officer Batista (ID# 11168) from ICE, who stated that both men were undocumented and were providing the police officers with false names. Batista asked that both men be booked under the aliases they provided, and said that âICE would follow up with further action after they were booked at the Volusia County Branch Jail.â Perez-Jimenezâs court records and police affidavit would then be under âRogelio Perez.â Perez-Jimenez was processed on January 22 by 1:10 a.m.
Perez-Jimenez was given an ICE detainer on January 22, which aligns with when ICE placed an immigration detainer on him, according to its press release.
The last place Jimenez-Perez was located at before being transferred to the Glades County Detention Center was the Indian Lake Jail. Jimenez-Perez was adjudicated and found guilty on February 19 of two misdemeanor counts: giving a false name upon being arrested/detained and resisting an officer without violence.
His release date is listed as February 19 and he served 30 days, according to Volusia County Circuit Court records. He was taken into ICE custody on February 21, according to todayâs ICE press release. He was processed into the Glades County Detention Center on February 26.
Perez-Jimenez is at least the thirteenth person to die in ICE custody this year.
The pace of ICE custody deaths this year has outpaced last yearâs over the same time period. In the same period last year, from January 2025 through March 2025, there were four deaths in ICE custody: Genry Donaldo Ruiz-Guillen, Serawit Gezahegn Dejene, Juan Alexis Tineo Martinez, and Maksym Chernyak. In the same period this year, there have been 12 so far, and March still hasnât ended.
We reached out to the Department of Homeland Security and for comment and will update this story if we hear back.
glad that much of the conversation I've seen on here about Renee Good contextualizes her death within the rampant killing of people (especially Black, immigrant, and indigenous people) by ICE, police, and other armed actors of the state going back literally the entire existence of the US, with particular attention to the very recent deaths that were less reported due to a combination of being racialized victims and not having clear footage that fascists could circulate as titillating snuff film propaganda.
surprised that I haven't seen anyone mention that Renee Good is a lesbian, or that her butch partner was present during the murder, and the role that gender is playing in this particular moment of rallying the far right. it took me until a couple days ago to even learn that, actually, or that fascists are using AI to 'undress' Good in order to symbolically use her body as a sex object--creating a public show of the "bitch" forcibly brought back into patriarchy through death and sexual violence.
the racial and gendered politics of why her killing is hypervisible in the news cycle are deeply interrelated, imo. the white nationalist project that seeks the simultaneous expulsion and torture of racialized subjects is the very same whose anxieties around "white birth rates" has animated legislation to escalate the restriction of healthcare that impacts sexed characteristics (abortion, gender affirming care, puberty blockers, etc) and target populations acting against sexgender assignment.
lesbianism among those assigned female at birth has largely been assimilated within the cisgender class for the last 50 years or so (excepting those of us who outright reject assignment and/or pursue the medical changing of sexed traits, who are still transsexualized), but imo what we're seeing is that, within this far right movement that is obsessed with controlling birth within patriarchal marriage, a cis lesbian's death can stand in for a larger propaganda of the rightful punishment for the rejection of sex assignment (which is implicitly understood to threaten the white nationalist project).
âOn In Bed With the Right hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about gender, sex and sexuality â and to plumb the ways in which these ideas persist in and shape our present moment.â
On January 7, 2026, Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a killing that was captured by mult
This podcast has long been articulating many of my half-felt, half-known truths with clear and well-founded analysis and context. Highly recommend it generally, but very specifically this episode.
Tonight I went to a latke party (fundraiser for a new collective, a queer collective kitchen) and partway through there was a break in the action, a really sweet moment of menorah lighting and singing. The early part of this week has been a heartbreaking beginning of Hanukkah: Bondi Beach in the news far away, and Rob and Michele Reiner just across town đ. It was a blessing to be invited to celebrate a little bit and be together lighting candles in the dark. I came home and opened tumblr to look for my fav meme that gets shared most years. Happy honk to all who celebrate.
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tonight begins tu bâshvat, the jewish new year (or bday) for the trees, and itâs one of my favorite holidays. one of the many things we consider on tu bâshevat is the hidden inner workings of the trees. in israel and many diaspora locations, the holiday falls toward the end of the rainy season and of winter. the trees have a lot going on inside and down deep in their roots! theyâre metabolizing all the nutrients theyâll need to start bearing fruit when the conditions permit. we donât celebrate this holiday when the trees are in their full flourishingâwe celebrate it when weâre still in anticipation of that time.Â
i think thereâs an analogy to recovery here. in early recovery phases, weâre soaking up nutrients and our bodies are very busy on the inside, metabolizing energy and repairing the systems that had, in a sense, to lie dormant in the cold of starvation. there may be little in terms of visible fruit (even to ourselves) in these early phases, but if you look closely, and if you understand and trust the internal processes, you know that the fruition is coming.
and, like the trees, we experience cycles in recovery. of dormancy or fruition. they depend on each other. in the winters we know the blossoms will come. and we appreciate these phases of inner movement, interiority, before that work moves to the outside and we again share ourselves with the world. chag sameach đłđł
*trying to flirt with a guy* I dig your look. I'd love to see you tied to a tree and made to bear the wounds of St. Sebastian. Completely obliterated from every angle *remembers the social contract and gets nervous* Like, the jacket for example, where'd you get that
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