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February 23, 2017

Texas: ICE Removes Woman with Brain Tumor from Hospital
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In Texas, ICE officers removed an undocumented immigrant asylum seeker
from a hospital, where she was being treated for a brain tumor, and
returned her to a detention center. Lawyers for the Salvadoran woman,
who's identified only as Sara, say immigration agents cut off all
communication with her family and attorneys, and bound her hands and
ankles as they transferred her from the hospital to the for-profit
Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas. The lawyers say Sara has been
suffering convulsions, nosebleeds and severe headaches, and needs brain
surgery if she's to survive.


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