Thread: Mother of toddler who died after ICE detainment sues US for $60 million

Mother of toddler who died after ICE detainment sues US for $60 million

By Justin Wise - 11/27/18 08:22 PM EST







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The mother of the 1-year-old child who died after being released from a family detention center is filing a claim against the U.S. government.


Attorneys for Yazmin Juarez filed a legal claim on Tuesday seeking $60 million from the government for the death of her daughter, Mariee, according to The Associated Press.



The claim is against multiple agencies, the news agency reported.


Lawyers for Juarez are arguing that Mariee developed a respiratory illness while she was being held at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, after being detained.


They are accusing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of releasing Mariee despite treating her condition.
Mariee died six weeks later in Philadelphia after being hospitalized for respiratory failure.


The law firm Arnold & Porter told the AP that it will file a lawsuit against the government if it doesn't settle its claim. R. Stanton Jones, a lawyer at the firm, told the AP that the government has six months to respond to its claim.
“Having made the decision to jail small children, the U.S. government is responsible to provide living conditions that are safe, sanitary and appropriate,” Jones said to the news service.


ICE and other agencies listed in the claim declined to comment to the AP about pending litigation.


“ICE takes very seriously the health, safety and welfare of those in our care,” spokeswoman Jennifer Elzea said in a statement.



The Hill has reached out to ICE for further comment.


The AP notes that the detention facility in Texas has received repeated complaints about alleged substandard care. Advocates have argued that detaining families can lead to damaged mental health.


ICE has pushed back against the criticism, saying that detainees have access to medical professionals.


Juarez and her daughter arrived in the U.S. in March seeking asylum, according to CBS News. Juarez has previously alleged that her child received substandard medical care at the detention center where they were held.

https://thehill.com/latino/418597-mo...for-60-million

Finally, a situation that will justify the immediate end to the US asinine asylum program on a legal foundation that every single lawyer and judge in the United States, if not the world, will understand: contingent liability.

The US Congress through its grand long-standing stupidity has no authority at all to admit immigrants or to cause or force anyone to admit immigrants into the United States, let alone allow them in on any basis that creates or carries an unknown risk of contingent liability and then tell US taxpayers after the fact to pay for it. Therefore, the asylum laws, the refugee laws, the TPS laws, and UAC laws of the United States are all 100% unconstitutional.

In fact, under the US Constitution, there is no authority at all for the federal government in any of its branches to admit even 1 immigrant into the United States. Under the US Constitution the only authority the federal government has with regards to immigration of any kind after the year 1808 is to prohibit it. Immigration and the importation of labor under the US Constitution is a states right subject to the federal authority to prohibit it after the year 1808.

“ICE takes very seriously the health, safety and welfare of those in our care,” spokeswoman Jennifer Elzea said in a statement.

There should be no one in your care. They should have already been deported.

I say stay the hell home (the toddler could have been sick be for ) wait girl you was told not to come to our country & now you baby get sick & now you want to sues for $ 60 million I SAY ICE BETTER look in to this it was fix ) they will do any thing to get money this is all BS
MR PRESIDENT you should look in to this if you hand her $60 million well you can Built the wall

Shut down detention centers and deport them all! We are not the tent city or babysitter for the world!

Send all UAC's back home within 48 hours!

LET THEIR PRESIDENT ASSUME THE LIABILITY TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR PEOPLE!

THAT BABY WAS SICK BEFORE IT CAME HERE...GIVE HER NOTHING!

THOSE RESPIRATORY ILLNESSES CAN TAKE A FEW WEEKS TO SHOW UP...IT WAS ALREADY SICK!