Human Rights Watch: Second COVID-19 Death in US Immigration Detention
June 05, 2020
June 05, 2020
WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
As people across the United States prepared for Memorial Day last month, a second person in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody died of complications from Covid-19.
Santiago Baten-Oxlaj, 34, from Guatemala, passed away at the Piedmont Regional Hospital in Georgia on Sunday, May 24. According to ICE, he had been hospitalized since April 17 after being transferred from the Stewart De . . .
As people across the United States prepared for Memorial Day last month, a second person in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody died of complications from Covid-19.
Santiago Baten-Oxlaj, 34, from Guatemala, passed away at the Piedmont Regional Hospital in Georgia on Sunday, May 24. According to ICE, he had been hospitalized since April 17 after being transferred from the Stewart De . . .