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Guardian - Guatemalan migrant sent to same US detention facility where he nearly died
🇺🇸 🇬🇹 Immigration authorities who approved the supervised release of a Guatemalan man after he allegedly contracted a horrific gangrene infection in their custodyhave 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. |
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