Federal agents in Texas move hospitalized Salvadoran woman awaiting emergency surgery to a detention facility
A critically ill woman from El Salvador who was awaiting emergency surgery for a brain tumor was forcibly moved from a Texas hospital to a detention center by federal agents, raising concerns about President Trump ’s directive to more aggressively pursue people living in the country illegally.
Sara Beltran-Hernandez, 26, a mother of two young children, was bound by her hands and feet and removed by wheelchair from Huguley Hospital in Fort Worth late Wednesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who brought her to a detention facility in Alvarado, Texas.
“It is heartbreaking and inhumane,’’ said Chris Hamilton, a Texas lawyer who tried to visit the woman Wednesday night at the detention center, where he was threatened with arrest for trespassing.
“This is unacceptable under our Constitution, and unacceptable from a standpoint of basic human rights,” Hamilton said. “This woman is critically ill and in severe pain.”
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Lawyers who have been representing Beltran-Hernandez in an asylum petition said they plan to file an emergency appeal in Texas to get their client returned to the hospital.
“The medical team and legal team are focused on getting Sara the medical treatment she desperately needs,” said Lorena Massoni, a paralegal working on Beltran-Hernandez’s case.
Beltran-Hernandez was picked up by immigration agents in November 2015 while trying to get from El Salvador to New York to visit her mother and other relatives who live in Queens. She has been detained ever since at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, while her family petitioned for asylum, citing threats of violence against her, from a domestic partner, among others.
Beltran-Hernandez was transferred from the detention center to the hospital in Fort Worth this month after complaining of headaches, nosebleeds and memory loss. Doctors diagnosed a brain tumor and put her on a waiting list for emergency surgery, which was supposed to take place this weekend, according to her legal team. They were stunned when the agents removed her from the hospital Wednesday.
Beltran-Hernandez was picked up by immigration agents in November 2015 while trying to get from El Salvador to New York to visit her mother and other relatives who live in Queens. (That means Illegal Alien).
The agency said in a statement Thursday, “During her stay at the hospital, ICE ensured that she was able to speak to her family and to her attorney by phone. Like all detainees in our care, Ms. Beltran will continue to have access to 24 hour emergency medical care and to any required specialized treatment at an outside facility.’’ The statement also said that a doctor had determined she was stable enough to be discharged and that she will be seen again by a medical specialist next week.
The "person" speaking (Zuniga) is not authorized to speak per the law firm, located in New Jersey, that she may no longer be working for due to the unsubstantiated statements she has given regarding a case the firm hasn't decided to pursue in a suit.
The hospital released Sara after receiving numerous threats and promises to sue, to protect their staff and other patients.
Sure do wish they'd post all the accurate information instead of just the burning edge "mommy, mommy" bait.
Very important information.
Sure do wish they'd post all the accurate information instead of just the burning edge "mommy, mommy" bait.
I agree.
There is also this: She wasn't initially arrested by Ice. She was arrested by the police for assault with a deadly weapon. Don't worry though. The victim survived being run over by the car Ms. Beltran-Hernandez was illegally driving.
And asylum claim? That came up only after she was denied bail. She was denied bail because of the seriousness of her crime, and she was a flight risk.
Let's see...what else? Oh, yeah, her 'brain tumor'? Further testing showed that she didn't have one. When she was told that she was being taken back to jail, she became combative. It's hospital policy that released patients are taken out of the hospital in a wheel chair. Had this lady not assaulted hospital staff, she would have had only her hands restrained per hospital policy regarding jail inmates, but police and hospital security had to restrain her ankles as well. Don't worry about the male nurse, either. He'll be singing soprano for a while, but a complete recovery is expected, especially after his left testicle is found.
Sister Mary, it is only reasonable that you provide the source for your comments about this case since you mention a lot of specifics.
Try doing a search John - or are you still to lazy to do your own work?
Who the fuck was talking to you?
You would think that after years of me beating you like a drum you would learn your lesson, but I guess not.
Butttt - the "poor lil' picked on Illegal Alien has made some friends in NJ. Wonder if Christie is part of this deal?????