Internal ICE Reviews Of Two Immigrant Deaths Stoke Fears About COVID-19 Care

[MissMillie]

Source: NPR

When Carlos Mejia-Bonilla was detained by immigration authorities a few years ago, he told the health care staff at the Hudson County Correctional Facility in New Jersey that he was taking medicine for a range of conditions, including diabetes, anemia, high blood pressure and cirrhosis of the liver.

Ten weeks later, he died of gastrointestinal bleeding.

An internal investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement found that Bonilla was denied necessary medical care. The care he did receive in ICE detention was "outside the scope of safe practice," ICE's investigators concluded, and contributed to his death.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/29/847838342/internal-ice-reviews-of-two-immigrant-deaths-stoke-fears-about-covid-19-care

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Apply for asylum, lose your life.

And to think these folks come here for a better life.

[spike jones]

1. Anne Frank died of typhus. n/t

[kimbutgar]

2. When mf45 loses and Biden becomes President

We will find mass graves of immigrants. I keep having such vivid dreams of seeing it on tv and reading about it.

MF 45 will have to be refered to The Hague for crimes against humanity.