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Thu Aug 8, 2019, 12:06 PM Aug 2019

Detroit resident dies after administration deports him

BY AMY GUNIA
5:55 AM EDT

A man who spent most of his life in the United States died this week after he was deported to Iraq in June.

The man, 41-year-old Jimmy Aldaoud, was an Iraqi national who was born in Greece, but came to the U.S. when he was a child, Politico reports. He had never lived in Iraq and did not speak Arabic, but was deported amid the Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown.

Edward Bajoka, an immigration lawyer and self-described close friend of the family, wrote on Facebook that Aldaoud was found dead on Wednesday. The cause of death appeared to be linked to an inability to get insulin for diabetes ...

https://time.com/5647275/iraq-jimmy-aldaoud-dies-trump-deportation/

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