Jesus Molina-Veya

ICE announced that Jesus Molina-Veya, a 45-year-old citizen of Mexico in ICE custody, was pronounced deceased at the Phoebe Sumter Hospital in Americus, GA, on June 7 after he was found unresponsive in his cell at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA. While an official cause of death has not been released, an ICE spokesperson has called the death “an apparent suicide.”

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  1. ICE announced that Jesus Molina-Veya, a 45-year-old citizen of Mexico in ICE custody, was pronounced deceased at the Phoebe Sumter Hospital in Americus, GA, on June 7 after he was found unresponsive in his cell at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA.
  2. While an official cause of death has not been released, an ICE spokesperson has called the death “an apparent suicide.”

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Stewart Detention Center

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