A Filipino man was begging for months to go to the hospital after a “stabbing” pain in his stomach. He ended up with a bone infection and an amputation.
TACOMA, Wash. — A federal judge ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to immediately release a Filipino immigrant from detention, ruling that grossly inadequate medical care violated his constitutional rights.
In a sharply worded decision, U.S. District Judge Tana Lin found that Greggy Sorio’s detention had become unconstitutional punishment because of a “pattern of failures of care” by medical staff at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.
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