Immigrants held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement jails around the US received medical care so bad it resulted in two preventable surgeries, including an 8-year-old boy who had to have part of his forehead removed, and contributed to four deaths, according to an internal complaint from an agency whistleblower.
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The allegations were laid out in a March 20 memorandum signed by Cameron Quinn, DHS’s officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and sent to top ICE leadership. The memo describes the whistleblower as someone within the ICE Health Service Corps, or IHSC, which provides medical care and oversight for detainees in the agency’s custody. BuzzFeed News does not know the person’s identity.
This internal memo is one of a trove of remarkable secret documents — including emails, briefing materials, and draft reports — BuzzFeed News has obtained throughout 2019 uncovering how the Trump administration’s immigration policies were formed and executed, and how those policies confused or harmed people who sought to immigrate to the US.
These records have revealed how immigrants locked up at the US border had no access to showers and how children were held in closed and crowded cells;
- that US border officials apparently pressured the asylum office to deny immigrants entry into the US;
- that a Texas detention center waited more than seven hours to transfer an ailing 37-year-old Mexican man to a hospital, where he died from bleeding in his brain;
- and that in the final days before launching a controversial plan to deport Central American asylum-seekers to Guatemala, US officials scrambled to answer basic questions such as how people would get shelter, food, and social services.
Don’t get your hopes up. US Border service are allowed to be armed in Canada and arrest someone and Canada can’t do anything U.S. officials can now carry sidearms in these preclearance zones, conduct strip searches, record and keep passenger information, and detain Canadian citizens.
Even if a Canadian official is “unwilling” to conduct a search or has deemed a detainment unnecessary, a U.S. official can override that call. In other words, Canadian law enforcement can now be countermanded within Canada by Americans.
It is amazing how many posters like Brain Pudding and Spiritinterface will continue to post Trump lies despite the number of times they have been debunked.
Cheapskate0 almost 5 years ago
Now here’s a surprise I was not expecting!
But I was serious yesterday, I will be taking some time off from this strip.
Darsan54 Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Shocking but not surprising. Notice it’s a kid size cage. Just that more cruel.
SpiritInterface almost 5 years ago
More projection of Obama’s actions onto President Trump.
kaffekup almost 5 years ago
They’d never lock him up. He’s white.
Giving away free gifts? Maybe he’s a socialist from Norway, give him a visa.
Silly Season almost 5 years ago
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/ice-immigrant-surgeries-deaths-jails-whistleblower-secret
Immigrants held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement jails around the US received medical care so bad it resulted in two preventable surgeries, including an 8-year-old boy who had to have part of his forehead removed, and contributed to four deaths, according to an internal complaint from an agency whistleblower.
✁The allegations were laid out in a March 20 memorandum signed by Cameron Quinn, DHS’s officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and sent to top ICE leadership. The memo describes the whistleblower as someone within the ICE Health Service Corps, or IHSC, which provides medical care and oversight for detainees in the agency’s custody. BuzzFeed News does not know the person’s identity.
This internal memo is one of a trove of remarkable secret documents — including emails, briefing materials, and draft reports — BuzzFeed News has obtained throughout 2019 uncovering how the Trump administration’s immigration policies were formed and executed, and how those policies confused or harmed people who sought to immigrate to the US.
These records have revealed how immigrants locked up at the US border had no access to showers and how children were held in closed and crowded cells;
- that US border officials apparently pressured the asylum office to deny immigrants entry into the US;
- that a Texas detention center waited more than seven hours to transfer an ailing 37-year-old Mexican man to a hospital, where he died from bleeding in his brain;
- and that in the final days before launching a controversial plan to deport Central American asylum-seekers to Guatemala, US officials scrambled to answer basic questions such as how people would get shelter, food, and social services.
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe almost 5 years ago
Don’t get your hopes up. US Border service are allowed to be armed in Canada and arrest someone and Canada can’t do anything U.S. officials can now carry sidearms in these preclearance zones, conduct strip searches, record and keep passenger information, and detain Canadian citizens.
Even if a Canadian official is “unwilling” to conduct a search or has deemed a detainment unnecessary, a U.S. official can override that call. In other words, Canadian law enforcement can now be countermanded within Canada by Americans.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-border-crossing-rights-1.5382547
RobinHood almost 5 years ago
“Let me out of here, if I die in a cage, I lose a bet.” Rick Sanchez
RobinHood almost 5 years ago
Actually, Santa was leaving the US and trying to enter Mexico. The liberal press has no idea how the authorities down south treat immigrants
Nantucket Premium Member almost 5 years ago
It is amazing how many posters like Brain Pudding and Spiritinterface will continue to post Trump lies despite the number of times they have been debunked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_separation_policy
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44303556
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/23/trump-falsely-says-obama-started-family-separation/1540733001/
William Bednar Premium Member almost 5 years ago
Guess NORAD shot his sleigh down as soon as it crossed north over the Mexico border. Bad, Santa, bad!
braindead Premium Member almost 5 years ago
If I understand the Trump Disciples here, Obama separated families and locked children in cages.
And those are bad things, right?
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And Trump did neither of those things, right?
Or he did them, but only because he was forced to by Obama and Democrats, who are responsible for ALL his cruelty, right?
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Gotta admire their analysis skills.