CHILD WITH LEUKEMIA HELD IN ICE CUSTODY, LAWSUIT CLAIMS RIGHTS VIOLATION
A spokesperson for immigration advocacy group RAICES, a co-counsel on the case, also commented on the detention center's condition. They said "families report that the medical care at Dilley is inadequate, disorganized, and indifferent to the urgency of pediatric health needs."
Kumar tells said their legal team is already seeing forward progress in the case.
On Thursday, a judge ordered responding groups to give an answer by July 1.
We reached out to ICE and DHS officials for comment on the case, their spokesperson said they're got our request, but couldn't meet our deadline.
FULL RAICES STATEMENT:
"What we have witnessed with the resurgence of family detention under the Trump administration is a humanitarian crisis unfolding in real time — one defined by state-sanctioned harm, the denial of due process, and systemic disregard for the wellbeing of immigrant children and their families. Conditions at the South Texas Family Residential Center (“Dilley”), under the management of private prison contractor CoreCivic, are broadly punitive. Most egregiously, families report that the medical care at Dilley is inadequate, disorganized, and indifferent to the urgency of pediatric health needs, which is crystallized in our case on behalf of a Honduran mother and her two children, including one who is six years old and has a history of leukemia. This family came to the U.S. lawfully, attended their immigration court hearing in compliance with their legal obligations, and yet now suffer life-threatening imprisonment to meet this administration's arbitrary quotas designed to stoke baseless fear amongst the American public."
