(CNN) An Iraqi national who had lived in the US since he was an infant died shortly after being deported to Iraq as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration.

Jimmy Aldaoud, 41, died from complications of diabetes, his attorney Edward Bajoka told CNN. Aldaoud, who had a long criminal record, was deported in early June to Iraq, where he had no family or contacts and did not speak the language. His body was found Tuesday at an apartment he shared with another Iraqi American deportee.

"He was not able to get insulin in Iraq. That was essentially the cause of his death," Bajoka said. "This death was completely preventable. It did not have to happen. The death has been devastating to Jimmy's family and to the community."

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Detroit tell CNN that when Aldaoud was deported on June 2, "he was supplied with a full complement of medicine to ensure continuity of care."

Aldaoud, part of the Chaldean Catholic community in Michigan, had never been to Iraq, his attorney said, despite holding Iraqi citizenship through his father. He was born in a refugee camp in Greece. His family came to the US lawfully as refugees in 1979 when he was 6 months old, ICE confirmed to CNN. His now-deceased parents and three other siblings all became US citizens, Bajoka said, but he never did.

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