So far this year, 22 migrants have died while in custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
On Wednesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acknowledged that a 45-year-old Venezuelan man, Jesus Arenas Silva, died while authorities were transferring him between detention centers in Georgia on Monday.
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ICE officers found Arenas Silva unconscious at about 7:46 a.m. while he was on a bus traveling from the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla to the Folkston D. Ray Processing Center.
Emergency responders transported the Venezuelan man to Irwin County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later, at 8:31 a.m. “The suspected cause of death was cardiac arrest. The official cause is pending a subsequent medical examination,” ICE said.
So far this year, 22 migrants have died while in ICE custody. In 2025, the National Immigration Project recorded 33 deaths, the highest annual total in two decades.
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Currently, the mortality rate among migrants detained by ICE has more than doubled since the start of Donald Trump’s second presidency.
The Venezuelan man’s death comes amid protests over the deaths of two men who were shot by ICE agents while driving: Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a father of three, on July 7 in Texas, and 26-year-old Colombian national Joan Sebastian Guerrero on Monday in Maine.
In addition, a Mexican man died Tuesday after being struck by a vehicle while fleeing an immigration operation in Florida.
ICE said that Arenas Silva entered the United States “illegally and without inspection” through the border in October 2021 during the administration of Joe Biden (2021-2025). An immigration judge in Atlanta ordered his removal to Venezuela in April.
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