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 facilitieswhere Romero first got sickis severely lacking.
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SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)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)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.