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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 20 augusT 2019

Detained immigrants sue

over conditions, medical care

By AMY TAXIN tion centers,” said Tim Fox, rently an average 55,000
Associated Press co-executive director of immigrants in detention
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immi- the Civil Rights Education each day, according to
grants held in U.S. detention and Enforcement Center. ICE.
facilities filed a lawsuit Mon- ICE, which largely con- One of the plaintiffs, Faour
day decrying what they tracts with private compa- Abdullah Fraihat, has been
called shoddy medical nies and law enforcement detained in Adelanto for
care and a failure by au- agencies for detention more than two years and
thorities to provide accom- space, declined to com- lost vision in his left eye.
modations for disabilities. ment specifically about the While an off-site doctor
In the suit filed by disability lawsuit. recommended surgery in Gisselle Contreras, at podium, daughter of an immigrant
and civil rights advocates An agency official said April, immigration authori- detained at Adelanto, Calif., describes her father’s housing
conditions before his final deportation to Guatemala, as she joins
in U.S. District Court, immi- comprehensive medical ties didn’t provide it and criminal justice, disability rights, and immigration organizations
grants said they’re placed care is provided to all de- he was told last month his announcing a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of thousands
in isolation as punishment tainees including dental vision couldn’t be restored, of people suffering in ICE detention centers for unconstitutional
and denied recommend- and 24-hour emergency according to the lawsuit. medical, mental health, and disability accommodations in
ed medical treatment and care and studies have Fraihat, 57, who has back ICE detention centers, during a news conference outside the
surgery. Some said they’ve shown about 1 percent of and knee pain, said he Roybal Federal Courthouse in Los Angeles Monday, Aug. 19,
been denied wheelchairs detainees are held in seg- was given a wheelchair 2019. At left, Anthony Diaz, an American Sign Language (ASL)
interpreter.
and a deaf detainee who regated housing at a given but it was taken away after Associated Press
communicates in Ameri- time. The lawsuit filed on a month. For more than a
can Sign Language said he behalf of 15 immigrants year, he relied on officers
has not been provided an from countries including to bring him food, the suit Pentagon conducts 1st test of
interpreter. Sudan and Mexico and said. Another detainee at
The problems harm dis- nonprofits seeks to repre- the facility about 60 miles previously banned missile
abled immigrants and sent immigrant detainees (100 kilometers) northeast By ROBERT BURNS and LO- increase U.S.-Russian ten-
threaten anyone in one of across the country. The suit of Los Angeles said he was LITA C. BALDOR sions. The Trump adminis-
Immigration and Customs cites problems at eight fa- placed in segregation for Associated Press tration has said it remains
Enforcement’s more than cilities including a privately- a week after filing a griev- WASHINGTON (AP) — The interested in useful arms
50,000 detention beds who run center in Adelanto Cal- ance against an officer, U.S. military has conduct- control but questions
winds up getting sick or iso- ifornia, and Teller County the suit said. ed a flight test of a type of Moscow’s willingness to
lated from other detainees, Jail in Colorado. Luis Manuel Delgadillo, a missile banned for more adhere to its treaty com-
said Monica Porter, staff at- Advocates said they want 29-year-old who has lived than 30 years by a trea- mitments. The Pentagon
torney at Disability Rights to see changes in medical most of his life in the United ty that both the United said it tested a modified
Advocates, one of the or- treatment and policies for States, was on medication States and Russia aban- ground-launched ver-
ganizations that filed the the immigrants, who are for schizophrenia and bi- doned this month, the sion of a Navy Tomahawk
suit. fighting deportation, and polar disorder but his treat- Pentagon said. cruise missile, which was
“ICE cannot simply con- the release of immigrants ment shifted after he was The test off the coast launched from San Nico-
tract with third parties to under alternative pro- detained in May. Since of California on Sunday las Island and accurately
operate its detention cen- grams. then, his mental health has marked the resumption of struck its target after flying
ters and then wash its hands The number of immigrants suffered, prompting him to an arms competition that more than 500 kilometers
of the deplorable, unlawful in detention has grown in miss two court dates, ac- some analysts worry could (310 miles). q
conditions in those deten- recent years. There are cur- cording to the lawsuit.q

Memorial to victims of Boston Marathon bombing completed

Continued from Front “I hope that this memorial the sidewalk to honor the
will be a reminder to any- police officers killed in the
Nichola Forrester, a Mil- one out there who feels up- bombing’s aftermath, Mas-
ton, Massachusetts, resi- set about their life and that sachusetts Institute of Tech-
dent who completed the they will stop and think,” nology Officer Sean Collier
2013 race long before the she said by email. and Boston police Officer
bombs detonated, was The memorial — two dis- Dennis Simmonds.
among those pausing to tinct pieces separated by The stone pillars, which
reflect on their lunch break. about a city block — marks range in height from about
“I said a prayer for them,” the spots where two pres- 3 to 5 feet (1 to 1.5 meters),
she said after asking a by- sure cooker bombs deto- were gathered from places
stander to take a photo of nated near the finish line, around Boston significant
her beside one of the pillars. killing the three victims to the bombing victims.
“I’m pretty sure these three and wounding more than One representing 8-year-
victims had cheered for me 260 others. The two pieces old Boston resident Martin Inscriptions ring the base of two of the stone pillars completed
when I was going through each feature granite pillars Richard was taken from Monday, Aug. 19, 2019, in Boston to memorialize the Boston
the finish line, so the least ringed by towering bronze Franklin Park in his family’s Marathon bombing victims at the sites where they were killed.
I could do was come out and glass spires meant to Dorchester neighborhood. Associated Press
and show my support.” bathe the sites in warm Another that is fused to it two pillars is an inscription Medford, Massachusetts
Patricia Campbell, the white light. Cherry trees to honors 23-year-old Boston etched in bronze: “Let us native, comes from Spec-
mother of bombing victim bloom each April have also University graduate student climb, now, the road to tacle Island in Boston Har-
Krystle Campbell, said she been planted at the sites, Lingzi Lu and was donated hope.” bor, where she’d worked.
was grateful her daughter and two modest bronze by her school. And the third pillar for Its inscription reads: “All we
hasn’t been forgotten. bricks have been set in Around the base of the Campbell, a 29-year-old have lost is brightly lost.”q