Just when you thought Trump’s immigration enforcement and deportation plans couldn’t get any worse or be any less humane—they actually do. Yesterday in Texas, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed an undocumented woman with a brain tumor from the hospital to take her back to the detention center where she was once being held. No, that was not a typo. They actually went into a hospital, tied this poor woman up by the hands and ankles, removed her from medical care and took her back to a detention center.
The woman, a Salvadoran national identified only as Sara, was released from Huguley Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, and taken to Prairieland Detention Center against her will, according to her lawyers.
Just what kind of lunatic, demonic souls do they have working for ICE, anyway? Has everyone in the federal government taken leave of their senses since January 20? Apparently, they have also now cut her off from contact with her family.
[Melissa Zuniga, a member of Sara's legal team] said Sara, 26, was cut off from communication with her family and lawyers, even after the hospital and ICE had cleared Sara's mother for unrestricted phone access.
It looks like Sara is in pretty bad shape and with pressure on the hospital that they don’t want, it looks like her legal team may have to scramble to get her other care.
Zuniga said Sara complained of profuse nosebleeds and of long-term memory loss, while not receiving treatment at the hospital.
"Huguley no longer wants to be in charge of her case because they’re getting hounded by calls and a potential lawsuit," said Zuniga.
This is not an anomaly. All of this is fully aligned with Trump’s plans. After all, he was happy to proclaim in a meeting with CEOs that his administration’s enforcement of deportation policy is a “military operation.”
"All of a sudden for the first time we're getting gang members out, we're getting drug lords out, we're getting really bad dudes out of this country," Trump said during a listening session with manufacturing CEOs. "And it's a military operation because what has been allowed to come into our country."
He said that deportations are taking place "at a rate that nobody's ever seen before, and they're the bad ones."
A woman in the hospital with a brain tumor is a priority for deportation under this administration. How disgusting. Looks like Trump is taking plays right out of Putin’s dictator handbook. Get ready for major inhumanity and cruelty under this barbaric regime.