Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention

Ximena Bustillo

September 23, 2025 / 2:00 am

Georgia's Democratic senators are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to provide more information on recent deaths in immigration detention centers, including the conditions of detainees.

Since President Trump took office, 15 people have died in immigration detention, 10 of those deaths occurred between January and June, Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock wrote in a letter shared exclusively with NPR. The senators say that is the highest rate in the first six months of any year publicly available.

"Whatever our views on border enforcement, immigration enforcement, immigration policy, I think the overwhelming majority of the American people

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