Chaldean Christian immigrant Jimmy Al-Daoud dies after US deports him to Iraq
A Chaldean Christian immigrant to the US, Jimmy Al-Daoud, who was deported to Iraq, has reportedly died because he was unable to obtain insulin to treat his diabetes.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, Al-Daoud was deported from Michigan in June even though he had not lived in Iraq since he was an infant and didn’t speak Arabic. Officials said that when he was less than a year old, his parents fled to Greece, where they applied for refugee status in the US. The status was granted, and Al-Daoud was raised in the United States.
On August 7 Michigan state representative Mari Manoogian posted a video that she said was Al-Daoud, 41, describing his dire situation roughly two weeks after he was deported.
