A Canadian Has Died in ICE Custody – And 55 More Are Still Being Held

 🇨🇦  A Canadian Has Died in ICE Custody – And 55 More Are Still Being Held

Published: June 28, 2025
By: Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita

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How would you feel if a loved one died in a foreign prison — without answers, justice, or dignity?

This week, a tragic and deeply disturbing story emerged:
Johnny Noviello, a 49-year-old Canadian citizen and U.S. permanent resident, died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody on June 23, 2025. His body was found unresponsive in a detention center in Miami, Florida, as he awaited deportation.

The Canadian government says it is "urgently seeking more information" — but why did this happen in the first place?

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🇨🇦 55 Canadians Detained by ICE

Let that sink in.

According to recent reports, 55 Canadian citizens are currently being held in ICE custody across the United States.

This isn't a one-off tragedy. It’s part of a larger, troubling pattern of aggressive immigration enforcement, questionable medical care in detention centers, and a growing death toll — nine people have died in ICE custody already in 2025, four of them in Florida alone.

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🚨 Where’s the Transparency?

Johnny Noviello was a green card holder who had lived in the U.S. since 1988. He had completed a 12-month sentence for drug charges and was supposed to be released to rejoin family. Instead, he ended up in ICE custody — and now he's gone.

His family deserves answers.
Canadians deserve answers.
The world deserves accountability.

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🛑 What Are Canadian Officials Doing?

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand has said Ottawa is working with U.S. officials to uncover the cause of death. But is that enough?

• Have families of the other 54 Canadians in ICE custody been contacted?
• Are detainees receiving proper medical care, food, and legal support?
• Should Canadian citizens even be detained in U.S. immigration jails — especially those with longstanding residency?

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📣 We Must Speak Up

Whether or not you agree with Johnny Noviello’s past, no one should die in detention without answers, dignity, or justice.

We cannot allow Canadian citizens to vanish inside a system that lacks transparency and compassion. ICE is under increasing scrutiny for human rights violations — and Canada must protect its own.

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✊ What You Can Do

🔹 Share this story on social media to raise awareness.
🔹 Contact your MP and ask what they’re doing to support Canadians in ICE custody.
🔹 Support legal aid and advocacy groups helping detainees and their families.
🔹 Demand an independent inquiry into Johnny Noviello’s death.

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“An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

Let’s not wait until the next Canadian dies behind bars in another country.

#JusticeForJohnny #ICECustody #CanadiansInDetention #ZipolitaSpeaks #HumanRightsNow

Watching from the Other Side of the Fence

 It feels like we’re standing just across the yard, watching our neighbour’s house catch fire—knowing the wind could shift at any moment.

From Canada, we watch what’s happening in the U.S. with ICE—families torn apart, innocent people detained, even American citizens mistakenly imprisoned or deported. We see women and children disappear into the system, and we don't know where they go—or what’s being done to them. It’s terrifying. And we’re told to wait for the courts to sort it out. But justice after the fact doesn't save lives.

And what about the crematoriums in Mexico? That horror was real. Was it a warning? A test run? A glimpse of how far things can go when the world looks away?

We are watching from the other side of the fence, but fences don’t stop fire—or fascism. Canada must not wait until it’s too late to build protections. We must be proactive, not reactive. We must demand transparency, accountability, and humanity—before the knock comes to our own door.

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Background: What’s Happening in the U.S.

• ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has been detaining individuals, sometimes without cause or due process.
• Documented cases exist of U.S. citizens—some even born in America—being wrongly deported or imprisoned.
• Families are separated; children have been lost in the system for months or even years.
• Women report abuse, medical neglect, and sexual violence in detention centers.

The Unknown Fates of Women and Children

• Many detainees disappear into a vast bureaucratic maze.
• Court cases, when they do happen, come long after the damage is done.
• Public records and data are often withheld, leaving the true scale of the crisis unknown.

The Mexican Crematoriums: A Dark Warning

• Mass crematoriums discovered near border areas shocked the world.
• Questions remain: who was burned, why, and was there any accountability?
• The silence around these atrocities is chilling.

Why Canadians Should Worry

• Policies and practices can travel across borders.
• Canada has its own history of wrongful detentions and mistreatment—especially of Indigenous people and migrants.
• Private prison lobbying, anti-migrant sentiment, and opaque immigration policies are all red flags.

What Canada Must Do Now

• Enact preventative legislation to ensure transparency and due process.
• Ban private immigration detention facilities.
• Ensure full legal representation for all detainees.
• Establish independent oversight bodies with real power.
• Protect whistleblowers and journalists exposing abuses.

A Call to Vigilance and Action

We can’t pretend it’s not our problem because it hasn’t happened here yet. Justice delayed is justice denied—and silence is complicity. We must speak, act, and build firewalls of accountability before the fire jumps the fence.

The time to care is now. The time to act is now.

Before it’s too late.

He evades taxes, but they are trying to deport her...

Where is social justice? He should be deported!




"JEANETTE VIZGUERRA: [translated] Yes, my husband and I have both paid taxes the whole 20 years that we’ve been living here. Every year, we have paid taxes. And we’ve contributed our labor. And what many people don’t know is that immigrants can’t access the benefits of those taxes, any of the programs. That all stays here with this country. "

"The other thing that I want to ask is—supposedly, I am a criminal because I drove without a license, because I had expired stickers on my car, because I had false documents to work and put food on the table for my children. But what should we call you, Mr. President Trump, when you have been evading taxes for years, when the way that you’ve been acting is not in keeping with good conscience?"






Mexicans Border Crossing- The Entire Journey
https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2017/02/mexicans-border-crossing-entire-journey.html