Posted on 11/27/2018 5:41:31 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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 news service noted that the claim is against multiple agencies.
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 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 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 they were held at.
Mariee died six weeks later in Philadelphia after being hospitalized for respiratory failure.
The law firm Arnold & Porter told AP that it will file a lawsuit against the government if it doesn’t settle its claim.
The good news? Ambulance-Chasing Porn Lawyer Avanetti is her council! ;)
Counter-sue her for being here illegally with her kid! This is going to be one to watch; the Judge shopping starts NOW!
We need to start shooting them as they cross and burying them in mass graves.
Fifteen minutes later there would be no more border-crossers.
The child probably came across the border with the problem or caught it from another detainee.
She was detained at the border because her mother broke the law. A month and half later, 1000 miles away, her kid got sick and died. Bottom feeding lawyer looking for an easy payday. Tell him to get a job.
I was thinking that too. They didn’t take her to a doctor or free clinic during those 6 weeks? Didn’t they care about her?
Sue her for all of the American children who are dying because of their filthy diseases.
Barbed wire, tear gas and rubber bullets and closing entry seem to be working.
And we STILL need to build the wall. A GRAND wall deep and high.
But by all means let us slaughter instead :)
In staying with the Christian, as well as conservative platforms FR was built upon.
SMH
“lawyer at the firm, told AP that the government has six months to respond to its claim.”
That’s horse harky.
Yet another reason for the wall.
Seems the child was sick when her mother brought her into the US illegally.
There needs to be a way to prosecute thieving lawyers.
That detention center was probably the cleanest place she had ever spent the night
Better fed, better cleansed, better clothed...
This is a derivative of the ghetto lottery. But at least those players are citizens.
There is, Shakespeare gave it to us: William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2. The full quote is “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”.
Any American who got sick from coming into contact with that child needs to sue the mom for bringing the illness into this country
I’m sure that I would lose any chance of salvation by doing so, but I think that this will be necessary at some point.
No better though. Many years ago, I was shopping in an okay area in California that had pockets of what one might call more “challenged” residents, when I saw one of the latter drop a matchstick on the floor (this shows you how long ago it was, and what an embedded tradition it is) and tell his baby mama to step on it and say she slipped and fell.
They saw me looking at them and he said “just joking.” I guess I was lucky. Now they probably would have shot me and still filed a lawsuit against the store.
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