LUMPKIN, Georgia – A Costa Rican diabetic in federal immigration custody has the moment when an inmate in Georgia dies of COVID-19 headaches after being held in a detention center that reported more than 150 cases of coronavirus.
José Guillén-Vega, 70, died Monday night in a Columbus hospital, according to a press release from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.But it’s not the first time The initial cause of the death “cardiopulmonary arrest, secondary to coronavirus headaches,” officials said Wednesday, hospitalized since August 1.
County coroner Sybil Ammons said Guillén-Vega also suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Guillén-Vega awaiting deportation and housed at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin.The agreement has had six deaths in the more than 3 years, adding a similar one to COVID-19, according to immigrant rights advocates.Inmate Stewart and Guatemalan local Santiago Baten-Oxlaj, 34, died of the virus in May.The detention centre showed 154 cases of coronavirus among those arrested on Tuesday.
Stewart’s two coronavirus deaths are the most of any ICE facility in the nation. Three other people have died in federal immigration detention centers after testing positive for COVID-19, according to ICE.
ICE critics are asking the firm to release threatened prisoners since the start of the pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that others at increased risk of serious illness due to the virus come with others over the age of 65, as well as people with severe central disease, obesity, diabetes, liver disease, chronic kidney disease. , chronic lung disease and situations that leave them with a weakened immune system.
Azadeh Shahshahani, legal and advocacy director for Project South, a social justice organization, told the AJC that Guillen-Vega’s death was preventable.
“There is no explanation why a 70-year-old man being held in a murder center in the middle of a pandemic,” Shahshahani said. “How many more tragedies (must happen) in Stewart before other people are released and the government shuts down this terrible facility?”
ICE said that nationally, it had released more than 900 inmates who would possibly be at increased risk of serious illness.
In a statement, ICE said it is “firmly committed to the fitness and well-being of all in your care.” The firm also said officials would read about Guillén-Vega’s death as they do “in all those cases.”
Guillén-Vega arrived in the United States in December 1999 on a visa that expired in June 2000, ICE said. He remained in the country and was then convicted of rape of minors and indecent freedoms with a child in North Carolina on March 15, 2001, the government said. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison and transferred to Stewart on July 15.
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