A man in custody of the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency died on Sunday.<br />Business Insider reports 34-year-old Santiago Baten-Oxlag died of complications from COVID-19.<br />The Guatemalan immigrant died in a hospital in Columbus, Georgia, that he had been transferred to from ICE's Stewart Detention Center, in Lumpkin, Georgia.<br />He's the second immigrant to die from COVID-19 while in ICE custody. El Salvadoran Carlos Escobar Mejia died from the virus earlier this month.<br />As of May 16, 1,201 ICE detainees had tested positive for COVID-19, including 16 at the facility where Baten-Oxlag was being held.<br />As of last week, ICE was holding 26,000 people in its detention centers across the US.
