Detained migrant woman denied surgery for 4 months after c-section scar tore - Polidicks

https://www.texastribune.org/2018/10/26/migrant-mother-denied-surgery-scar-ice-detention/ In the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers where she was held, Luz became known as la llorona — the one who cries. Luz, who asked to be identified only by her first name to protect her from an abusive husband in Honduras if she’s deported, said she was in emotional and physical pain for the five months she was in federal detention. First, she was separated from her 15-year-old son under the U.S. government’s short-lived “zero-tolerance” policy after fleeing what she described as 17 years of physical and emotional abuse — including death threats — from her husband and illegally crossing the Rio Grande on May 16. They were quickly apprehended by Border Patrol agents near McAllen and requested asylum; Luz was sent to the Port Isabel Detention Center while her son was shipped to a San Antonio migrant youth shelter. Then, within a week of arriving at Port Isabel, Luz said her umbilical hernia and Cesarean section scar — the aftermath of delivering her seventh child in March 2017 — ripped open. So began a four-month medical nightmare. After being assigned a top bunk in her Port Isabel room, Luz said she told ICE agents about her surgeries and her concern that repeated climbing onto the bed could irritate the scars. “Well it was a long time ago, you’ll be fine,” Luz said an agent told her. Within a week, Luz said her abdomen started leaking. “I could feel my shirt get wet,” she said. “And I told my roommates to check what was happening to me, and they told me, ‘Oh God Luz, your C-section opened up.’” Luz said she could fit her pinky finger into the scar’s hole and she was in a lot of pain. She said a doctor in the detention center prescribed antibiotics and gave her ibuprofen for the pain, and she was under a nurse’s care at the facility for eight days. While still in Port Isabel, Luz had a credible fear interview and told an asylum officer about her years of domestic abuse. But it’s increasingly difficult for an applicant to qualify for asylum on the grounds of domestic or gang violence alone after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' announcement in June that essentially eliminated domestic abuse and gang threats as qualifying factors. After denying her credible fear claim, Luz said the officer told her she could either be deported with her son or deported alone. “It was either you’re both going to go back home, or he can stay and you go back home,” Luz’s attorney, Ruby Powers, explained. “She chose to give him a better life if that meant she had to waive her rights to reunification.” Powers, a Houston-based attorney who has worked on other “zero-tolerance” family separation cases, learned about Luz’s case in early September, just before The American Civil Liberties Union and President Trump reached an agreement that would allow families — many who said they had signed away their reunification rights under distress — another credible fear interview. Asylum officers reviewed her case following the ACLU announcement, and her negative review was changed to positive, making her eligible for bond. Luz’s son was released from the shelter to family in New York three weeks ago, and Luz said doctors at Pearsall re-examined her wound. ICE arranged for Luz to have surgery on Sept. 24 in a San Antonio hospital. When she woke up from the procedure, Luz said an ICE agent shackled her hands and feet. After a day in the hospital, she was released back to the detention center. After five months of separation, Luz was scheduled to fly to New York on Thursday to see her son

Barbaric, absolutely barbaric. To everyone who voted for Trump: This is what you voted for, and this is why people are making Nazi parallels.

They don't care; they will give out half-assed pity replies such as, "sucks to hear," only to follow it it, "but she shouldn't have come here illegally if she knew this was going to happen."

But it’s increasingly difficult for an applicant to qualify for asylum on the grounds of domestic or gang violence alone after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' announcement in June that essentially eliminated domestic abuse and gang threats as qualifying factors. 32.5 percent of refugees from Northern Traingle countries (Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala) have been exposed to physical violence from organized crime 48.4 percent have received threats; 78 percent of those say the threats were serious enough to impact their professional and social activities 45.4 percent of refugees from Honduras specifically have lost a family member to crime in the past two years. 31 percent knew someone who was kidnapped 72 percent of Hondurans regularly hear gunshots in their neighborhood. 75 percent witnessed a murder or saw a corpse in the past two years And more stats(PDF) for those interested in just how dire the humanitarian crisis in Central America is. This without going into the crimes committed on people as they make their way up Mexico, often times perpetrated by government workers.

and pointing this out day after day makes the media dishonest for always attacking trump.

In the pre-internet era this would be the next great national shame after the Japanese internment, but not now. The propaganda and misinformation are too strong

Some surgical wounds that are infected you would want to avoid closing. but 4 months seems kind of long. Usually you might wound-vac someone for a few weeks, than once the tissue is healthy enough you might be able to close it. Sometimes infected surgical wounds dont get "fixed" fast, and in ways yall would think, because what happened before will just keep happening again if its infected/tissue is bad enough. She still receive shit care it seems though.

No matter where I am or what I'm doing, I constantly question why anyone would vote for him. I'll never understand what positive things people ever see in Trump.