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Cuban Immigrant Dies in Georgia ICE Jail, the 18th Such Death in 2026

HeadlineMay 04, 2026

The Trump administration reports another person has died in ICE custody — the 18th such death so far this year. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says 33-year-old Cuban immigrant Denny Adan Gonzalez was found unresponsive in his cell at the for-profit Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, last Tuesday. ICE claimed the cause of death is a suspected suicide. In California, a federal grand jury has indicted a Salvadoran man who was shot by ICE agents in Patterson, California, in April. Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez underwent several surgeries for multiple gunshot wounds, including to the jaw, after ICE agents surrounded his car during a traffic stop, drew their weapons and fired on him as he attempted to drive away. Prosecutors accused Hernandez of hitting federal agents with his vehicle as they tried to arrest him; Hernandez says he feared the officers were going to shoot him. Here in New York, police officers arrested eight people on Sunday as they protested the violent arrest by federal agents of a Nigerian man accused of overstaying a tourist visa. About 200 protesters gathered outside the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood to confront ICE officers who were filmed dragging the man, handcuffed, to a waiting car. He’d been hospitalized after his violent arrest by ICE earlier in the evening. Activists were arrested as they tried to block the ICE vehicle from leaving the ambulance bay.

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