Updated at 11:11 a.m. Thursday
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have released details about the 70-year-old detainee died in Georgia on Monday due to COVID-19.
Jose Guillen-Vega, from Costa Rica, died at Piedmont Columbus Regional Hospital on Monday night of cardiac arrest due to COVID-19 complications. A statement from ICE said he had been hospitalized since Aug. 1
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