A 45-year-old Venezuelan man died while being transported between federal immigration detention facilities in Georgia, becoming the 22nd person reported to have died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2026.
Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva was found unresponsive Monday morning aboard a bus taking him from the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla to the Folkston ICE Processing Center, according to the federal agency. He was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.