Immigrant in Southwest Georgia detention center dies
“Advocates are calling for federal intervention after another person died at Stewart Detention Center in southwest Georgia: Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced a 61-year-old man named Salvador Vargas who was in immigrant detention at Stewart died on Tuesday. They said he died at a nearby hospital due to complications from a stroke. 
Vargas is the 11th person to die at Stewart Detention Center, making Stewart the deadliest detention center in the country. Nine of those people have died since 2017 and two were from suicide.”

Since the year 2017, at least 55 people have died within US Immigration detention. 
The Stewart Detention Center is a for-profit detention center ran by CoreCivic, the same corporation running the local Otay Mesa Detention Center, the center which cost Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia his life and in which 50-year-old Cristian Dumitascu lost his life earlier this year.

Our government cannot continue to put migrant lives at risk, as we know these deaths are entirely preventable. We continue to denounce the necessity of detention, and we are saddened that the current administration has done nothing to prevent or put an end to these tragedies.

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Arrest orders are issued for 6 people in the deadly Mexican immigration center fire
 A Mexican court issued arrest orders Thursday for six people in relation to the fire that killed 39 migrants at a detention facility this week in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, according to the federal prosecutor leading the investigation.

Sara Irene Herrerías said they include three officials from the National Immigration Institute, two private security guards contracted by the agency and the detained migrant accused of starting the fire. She said five of the six had already been arrested and would face charges of homicide and causing injuries.

At least 39 migrants died after apparently starting a fire inside a holding cell at the facility Monday night. More than two dozen others were injured.

Federal Public Safety Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez said 27 migrants remained hospitalized, all of them in either serious or critical condition. One other migrant had been discharged, she said. The migrant accused of starting the fire suffered only slight injuries and has already been released from the hospital, presumably into custody.

Rodríguez also said the private security firm involved, which she identified as Grupo de Seguridad Privada CAMSA, had a federal contract to provide security at immigration facilities in 23 states. She said it would have its operating permit revoked and face a fine.
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