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Third Death By Suicide In Georgia's ICE Detention Center, Advocates Call For Immediate Action to Close Stewart Detention Center

June 12, 2025

Lumpkin, Georgia — Amid increasing reports of overcrowding and the denial of human rights at the Stewart Detention Center, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has confirmed the death by suicide of Jesus Molina-Veya on Saturday, June 7, 2025. Mr. Molina-Veya’s tragic loss marks the thirteenth death in custody and the third confirmed death by suicide at Stewart Detention Center since ICE began detaining immigrants there in 2006.

Detention Watch Network rings the alarm: 25 percent increase in the number of people in ICE detention in just five months

June 11, 2025

Washington, DC — 50,000 people are now in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) custody, according to the agency’s most recent reporting. This alarming spike - a 25 percent increase in just four months - comes amid Trump’s increasingly authoritarian escalation to carry out his multi-layered, mass detention and deportation agenda.

MAGA megabill skyrockets ICE’s budget to never before seen funding levels

May 22, 2025

Washington, DC — Today, the House of Representatives passed the Trump and MAGA backed megabill that is one step closer to substantially increasing Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda. The bill provides a shocking $150 billion for immigration enforcement – the targeting, detention, and deportation of people – including $45 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention to detain families and adults over the next four years at the expense of vital programs for all Americans. The bill now moves to the Senate.

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