Second Immigrant Dies Of Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 In ICE Custody
Second Immigrant Dies Of Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 In ICE Custody
A man in custody of the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency died on Sunday.
Business Insider reports 34-year-old Santiago Baten-Oxlag died of complications from COVID-19.
The Guatemalan immigrant died in a hospital in Columbus, Georgia, that he had been transferred to from ICE's Stewart Detention Center, in Lumpkin, Georgia.
He's the second immigrant to die from COVID-19 while in ICE custody.
El Salvadoran Carlos Escobar Mejia died from the virus earlier this month.