BY:Â JORDAN BOYD
Democrats are rallying around the death of an illegal alien who was convicted of murdering an American.
After he died last month in federal custody, Democrats are rallying around the death of an illegal alien who was convicted of murder more than two decades ago. Charles Leo Daniel, a Trinidad and Tobago citizen who illegally overstayed his U.S. visa, died due to unknown circumstances on March 7 in the Northwest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington.
Daniel was first jailed after he was convicted in 2003 of the brutal murder of his landlord roommate with a âbloody butcher knife.â Court documents say police arrived on the scene to find Daniel âcovered in blood.â
Daniel claimed self-defense but the court determined that âtestimony to be lacking in credibilityâ and âfound the forensic evidence inconsistent with Danielâs account of how he had stabbedâ the victim, Raymond Lindsay. The court initially sentenced Daniel to â220 months prison and 24 to 48 months of community custody.â A per curiam decision issued in 2007 affirmed that sentence after concluding that âthe court did not misapply the law of self-defense.â
After an immigration judge ruled in favor of expelling Daniel from the country in 2020, Daniel was transferred into the custody of the Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations, where he died.
Shortly after his death, researchers at the University of Washington quickly alleged that the circumstances of Danielâs detention, which included âthe second-longest stretch in solitary confinement of any person in ICE custody since 2018,â caused him suffering and may have played a role in his death. The UW activists demand that Congress send âwritten information requests of the agencyâs Congressional liaison.â …
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