7/15/2026
btnewsroom Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva, a 45-year-old Venezuelan man, died Monday morning in Georgia while being transferred from the Irwin county detention center to the Folkston ICE processing center. He was found "unresponsive" on a transfer bus and pronounced dead at a local hospital. ICE arrested Arenas-Silva last Thursday, and according to a press release issued by Georgia immigrant rights groups, only allowed him to take one medication with him. When he called his sister while in detention, he relayed to her that agents did not give him the medication. “He went without medication during his detention until he tragically died in ICE custody on Monday,” according to a press release. Arenas-Silva becomes the fourth person to die in an ICE-related incident this week and the 22nd to die in ICE custody this year. View all 76 comments