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Guatemalan migrant sent to same US detention facility where he nearly died
Source: The Guardian
Guatemalan migrant sent to same US detention facility where he nearly died
Ángel Rosa, a father of US children, has been returned to Utah County jail where
contracted a horrific gangrene infection to await deportation despite his appeal
Renée Feltz
Thursday 28 January 2016 23.56 GMT
Immigration authorities who approved the supervised release of a Guatemalan man after he allegedly contracted a horrific gangrene infection in their custody have now returned him to the same facility where his family says he nearly died.
“Why can’t he come home?” Ángel Rosa’s 18-year-old daughter, Lorena, asked on Thursday upon hearing her father had been turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation instead of being allowed to return to his family in Hyrum, Utah.
Rosa was first held at the Utah County jail in 2013 after he pleaded guilty to a felony criminal offense of illegal re-entry, and was transferred to ICE, which has a contract to hold immigrants there. In late 2014, he says guards put him in a cell with an overflowing toilet and refused to let him shower, which led to an infection of his scrotum that went untreated and caused his rectum to swell shut and then an intestinal infection.
Close to death, his family says, Rosa was taken to a hospital for emergency surgery, then sent home to recover with the help of in-home nurse visits that they paid for. He was nearly castrated, and left sterile.
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Ángel Rosa, a father of US children, has been returned to Utah County jail where
contracted a horrific gangrene infection to await deportation despite his appeal
Renée Feltz
Thursday 28 January 2016 23.56 GMT
Immigration authorities who approved the supervised release of a Guatemalan man after he allegedly contracted a horrific gangrene infection in their custody have now returned him to the same facility where his family says he nearly died.
“Why can’t he come home?” Ángel Rosa’s 18-year-old daughter, Lorena, asked on Thursday upon hearing her father had been turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation instead of being allowed to return to his family in Hyrum, Utah.
Rosa was first held at the Utah County jail in 2013 after he pleaded guilty to a felony criminal offense of illegal re-entry, and was transferred to ICE, which has a contract to hold immigrants there. In late 2014, he says guards put him in a cell with an overflowing toilet and refused to let him shower, which led to an infection of his scrotum that went untreated and caused his rectum to swell shut and then an intestinal infection.
Close to death, his family says, Rosa was taken to a hospital for emergency surgery, then sent home to recover with the help of in-home nurse visits that they paid for. He was nearly castrated, and left sterile.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/28/guatemalan-migrant-sent-to-same-us-detention-facility-where-he-nearly-died
