In Georgia, another prisoner has died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Wednesday, ICE announced that 45-year-old Venezuelan immigrant Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva was found “unresponsive” in a bus that was transporting him from one ICE jail to another, with a “suspected” cause of death listed as cardiac arrest. It’s at least the 22nd such death this year.
It comes as the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday it would reverse plans to halt traffic stops, following the shooting deaths of two immigrants by ICE agents in less than a week. The U-turn came after President Trump wrote on social media, “we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!” adding, “it won’t happen on my watch.”