DHS stopped reporting post-release deaths as homicide rulings landed.
Daphy Michel was 31 years old, a severely mentally ill Haitian immigrant who could not speak English. ICE released her from Pittsburgh custody on February 27th and three days later she was found unresponsive at a bus shelter. Last week the Allegheny County Medical Examiner ruled her death a homicide caused by hypothermia. Track Every Post-Release Crime DHS told reporters she was released on a sunny day with a fully charged phone but conveniently left out that the temperature in Pittsburgh dropped to 27 degrees two days later. If that account sounds familiar it is because this is the same department that told us they left Nurul Amin Shah Alam, the nearly blind Rohingya refugee we wrote about over the last few months, at a ‘warm safe location with no signs of distress’. His death was also ruled a homicide caused by hypothermia. At some point, the gap between what DHS says happened and what medical examiners determine actually killed p...