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TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 12:06 AM Jun 2018

Ronal Francisco Romero Died in Agony in ICE Custody. Now His Family Is Preparing to Sue

Source: MSN

The mother of a man who died in agony in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody is preparing to sue the United States government for his death.

According to previously unreported court documents reviewed by The Daily Beast, the mother of an undocumented immigrant who died of bacterial meningitis is preparing for civil action related to his death. On June 4, Honduran native Martina Blasina Romero petitioned a federal judge in the Southern District of Texas to authorize depositions of the people who were held with her son, Ronal Francisco Romero, and know about the health collapse he experienced in his last days.

Border Patrol agents arrested her son on May 9, 2018, when he tried to enter the United States illegally. They held him at a Customs and Border Protection detention facility for about six days before turning him over to ICE custody. At about 2:30 a.m. on May 16, the authorities sent him to a local hospital. Less than 24 hours later, he was pronounced dead.

Katie Shepherd of the American Immigration Council said health care in CBP facilities—where Romero first got sick—is severely lacking.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ronal-francisco-romero-died-in-agony-in-ice-custody-now-his-family-is-preparing-to-sue/ar-AAykSq7?li=BBnbcA1

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Ronal Francisco Romero Died in Agony in ICE Custody. Now His Family Is Preparing to Sue (Original Post) TomCADem Jun 2018 OP
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Jun 2018 #1
Bacterial meningitis.... SergeStorms Jun 2018 #2
This will probably be a confirmed tragedy but is not yet. Hortensis Jun 2018 #3

SergeStorms

(19,201 posts)
2. Bacterial meningitis....
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 03:41 AM
Jun 2018

is a killer. That's why most Colleges and Universities mandate bacterial meningitis immunization if living in a dormitory. You can die in one day after contracting it. That's how serious that virulent disease is.

I guess there's no such mandate in the 'dormitories' (chain-link cages) of the CBP and ICE though.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. This will probably be a confirmed tragedy but is not yet.
Fri Jun 8, 2018, 05:44 AM
Jun 2018

I tried to find out how old Romero was and found only this one report copied around a bit. All too likely to be real, though, as are other deaths caused or contributed to by negligence in ICE custody.

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