Atlanta, May 27 (RHC)-- A Guatemalan man has become the second known person to die of the coronavirus while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 

Thirty-four-year-old Santiago Baten-Oxlag was imprisoned at the privately run Stewart Detention Center in Georgia before being transferred to a hospital.

Earlier this month, another ICE prisoner — Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia of El Salvador — died in a San Diego hospital after becoming sick at the for-profit Otay Mesa Detention Center. 

In a car protest, immigrant rights activists drove by the Otay Mesa jail to demand the release of prisoners. Organizer Jennifer Frost Moreno told reporters: “No more needless or senseless deaths because of COVID-19 and ICE’s lack of action to protect the detainees and staff inside detention centers.”

At least 200 prisoners at Otay Mesa have reportedly contracted COVID-19.  Nationwide across the U.S., over 1,200 people at ICE jails have tested positive.