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Lumpkin, Georgia - Advocates are mourning the loss of Priciliano Trejo, 29, who died at a hospital last week after being detained at Stewart Detention Center in Georgia. According to his family, Trejo, who had leukemia, was detained in North Carolina and sent to Stewart on June 19. On July 6, he wasn't feeling well and asked for medical care, but ICE did not provide it for eight days until they took him to the hospital on July 13. On July 15, Trejo was in a coma, and ICE contacted his family to give them custody of him. He died on Friday, July 24, at the hospital. Because custody of Trejo was…

Nationwide – While the nation grapples with the horror of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) murders in Maine and Texas last week, and amidst the deadliest fiscal year in ICE’s history, Detention Watch Network, Immigrant Defense Project, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and Bend the Arc are launching End The ICE Age, a new campaign calling on Members of Congress to shut down ICE detention centers, stop detention expansion, cut funding for ICE, and get ICE out of communities. The evidence against ICE is indisputable. As evidenced just last week with the horrific killings of Lorenzo…

Ocilla, Georgia — As the nation grapples with the horror of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) murders of Joan Sebastián Guerrero, 26, in Maine and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, in Texas, the agency’s death toll within its custody continues to grow at a record-breaking pace. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva, 45, tragically died in ICE custody on July 13 while being transferred from the Irwin Detention Center to the Folkston Detention Center in Georgia. His sister said, "Jesus Manuel Arenas Silva was a loving son and brother, a caring and hard-working man who came to this country to seek…

In response to reports of a fatal shooting by ICE in Biddeford, Maine, Carly Pérez Fernandez, Communications Director, issued the following statement: “We are deeply saddened and equally enraged by the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and now, the reported death of a 26-year-old in Maine at the hands of ICE just today, both deaths occurring within a week of each other. ICE kills people and threatens community safety across the country. No one is safe when ICE is present – whether on the streets or in one of the agency’s more than 200 abuse-ridden detention facilities. People are dying in ICE…

Houston, Texas — In response to the shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Houston, Texas on Tuesday, Carly Pérez Fernández, Communications Director at Detention Watch Network, issued the following statement: “The evidence against ICE is indisputable. ICE kills people and threatens community safety across the country. No one is safe when ICE is present – whether on the streets or in one of the agency’s more than 200 abuse-ridden detention facilities. ICE was hastily created just two decades ago. Its existence is neither necessary, nor a…

Lumpkin, Georgia — The death toll in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody continues to rise with the tragic passing of Denny Adán González, 33, who died on April 28 at the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia. His official cause of death remains under investigation. Gonzalez was reportedly in solitary confinement at the time of his death, a practice internationally recognized as torture. Advocates are calling for a full independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. González and the rampant use of force at the Stewart Detention Center. González’s…

Washington, DC — In response to another tragic death in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody on March 16, Carly Pérez Fernández, Communications Director of Detention Watch Network, issued the following statement: “We are deeply saddened by the passing of Royer Perez-Jimenez, 19, reported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a ’presumed’ death by suicide. We are equally enraged that a shocking 13 people have died in ICE custody this calendar year — four people in March alone, and 44 deaths total under this administration. ICE kills people and threatens community safety…

Washington, DC — While communities in Minneapolis and across the country mourn the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was executed by ICE last Wednesday, ICE has revealed that four people died in its custody in just the first 10 days of the New Year: Parady La, 46, was detained at Federal Detention Center (FDC) Philadelphia in Pennsylvania and died on January 9 Luis Beltran Yanez–Cruz, 68, was detained at the Imperial Regional Detention Center in California and died on January 6 Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, was detained at Camp East Montana (Ft Bliss) in Texas and died on January 3 Luis Gustavo…