Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit

[USS_Dauntless]

An 18-month-old baby held with her parents at a South Texas immigration detention center became so ill last month that she was rushed to a hospital with life-threatening respiratory failure — then sent back to detention days later, where she was denied daily medication doctors prescribed, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/toddler-hospitalized-dilley-ice-detention-rcna257912

[samsingh]

1. this is heartbreaking

[Rebl2]

2. They

Are Monsters. There is no doubt about it.

[Initech]

3. Fuck ICE and fuck Trump!

[Norrrm]

4. To Trump, Vance, and Noem, they are animals.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/16/trump-immigrants-animals-mexico-democrats-sanctuary-cities/617252002/

Trump ramps up rhetoric on undocumented immigrants: 'These aren't people. These are animals.'

[democrank]

5. Trump's use age of cruelty as policy even applies to babies.

He belongs in prison.

[sakabatou]

6. Attempted 2nd degree murder?

[dickthegrouch]

9. Practicing medicine without a licence

Withholding meds that were prescribed is as much practicing medicine as prescribing them, IMHO.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. Abolish it all.

[USS_Dauntless]

11. YEP!! DHS has got to go!!

Not just ICE!!

[femmedem]

8. It's concentration camp-level horror.

No one who reads the full article can plausibly deny it.

[dalton99a]

10. Kick

[struggle4progress]

12. "Our quality medical care rivals what folk got at Auschwitz!"

[newdeal2]

13. This is why the Fetterman's etc. of the Democratic party are dead wrong

ICE is a cruel and evil entity. They not about immigration enforcement, they are killers and assholes.