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USS_Dauntless

(259 posts)
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 04:50 PM 8 hrs ago

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

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

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Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit (Original Post) USS_Dauntless 8 hrs ago OP
this is heartbreaking samsingh 8 hrs ago #1
They Rebl2 8 hrs ago #2
Fuck ICE and fuck Trump! Initech 8 hrs ago #3
To Trump, Vance, and Noem, they are animals. Norrrm 8 hrs ago #4
Trump's use age of cruelty as policy even applies to babies. democrank 8 hrs ago #5
Attempted 2nd degree murder? sakabatou 8 hrs ago #6
Practicing medicine without a licence dickthegrouch 6 hrs ago #9
Abolish it all. WhiskeyGrinder 8 hrs ago #7
YEP!! DHS has got to go!! USS_Dauntless 6 hrs ago #11
It's concentration camp-level horror. femmedem 7 hrs ago #8
Kick dalton99a 6 hrs ago #10
"Our quality medical care rivals what folk got at Auschwitz!" struggle4progress 4 hrs ago #12
This is why the Fetterman's etc. of the Democratic party are dead wrong newdeal2 4 hrs ago #13

dickthegrouch

(4,393 posts)
9. Practicing medicine without a licence
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 07:05 PM
6 hrs ago

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

newdeal2

(5,048 posts)
13. This is why the Fetterman's etc. of the Democratic party are dead wrong
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 09:05 PM
4 hrs ago

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

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