This is very, very upsetting, although it is just another in a long line of horrific stories that grace our newsfeeds these days.
Several news sources are reporting that Roxsana Hernandez Rodriguez, a transgender woman who died in ICE custody on May 9th, 2018, was likely beaten, neglected and deprived of medical treatment. She was HIV-positive and also suffered from dehydration, which means they probably even denied her water. The findings came from an autopsy. No concerns or alarms were raised by any doctor who might have treated her (or any other ICE victim, for that matter) while she was still alive. I won’t go into the details here — I can barely keep from throwing up at reading the sparse details, such as they are. This is unconsionable, unforgivable, just another day in the life of Trump atrocities.
I cannot take it anymore. I simply cannot take it. The cruelty, abuse of power and failure to comport themselves with any iota of human decency throughout the organization at every level cannot be tolerated any longer.
What I’d like to do here is firstly, get the right activists the support they need. Let’s overwhelm them with blue dollars, so that they, and we, stand up and make this a watershed moment in the spreading stain of Nazi culture in our society.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. NO MORE. NO MORE. NO MORE.
Please help me. Please help me collect the right organizations who can help. Please help me spread the word. Please help identify what steps I can take, what steps others can take, that will help this story headline never happen again.
Donate :
transequality.org
Legal :
Who would be able to help? Are there lawyers who are willing to sue ICE for this?
National ICE Brutality Awareness Day — Can we make this happen? Better name? A protest against march ICE?
Focussed Social Media Campaign — Are there resources who could help here?
I am aware this is not much here, I’m just starting. But I simply cannot let it go. I am at work, and unable to get more done just now, but this is not going to go by silently. She will not have died in vain.
