The immigrant's 18 month-old daughter fell ill at the ICE center and died after being released.

When Yasmine Juarez arrived at the Family Residential Center of South Texas in Dilly town in March of this year, her 18-month-old daughter Marie was a healthy little girl with rosy puffy cheeks who adored dancing and singing with her mother, and was blissfully unaware of her future imprisonment .

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20-year-old Yasmin crossed the Rio Grande with her child in the hope of finding refuge from the violence that swept over her native Guatemala, writes Vice.com. Yasmin and Marie were detained by the US Customs and Border Services and transferred to the jurisdiction of the Immigration and Customs Service (ICE), which sent them to Dilly, the largest of the three detention centers for illegal immigrants, designed for 2400 people.

One week after arriving in Dilly, Marie started to have a cough, bronchospasm and fever with temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius. For the next two weeks, Yasmin felt powerless: her daughter was sick, came to herself and was sick again, trying to cope with a virus that started with a common cold.

Six weeks after the mother and daughter were released from the detention center, they moved to New Jersey and the girl lay in three different hospitals in serious condition. In the end, it was disconnected from the respirator. Marie died in the Philadelphia Children's Hospital. The cause of death was ultimately viral pneumonia.

Marie did not die in the center of the ICE. For nearly a month, false rumors about her death while imprisoned were spread on social networks, provoking a strong protest by immigration lawyers, who have long been concerned about the conditions of keeping children in Dilly. The girl died from a viral infection that can kill a child anywhere, although doctors say conditions in institutions like Dilly allow viruses to spread more easily and make it difficult to recover.

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“I still don't understand why this happened to me. After everything I have suffered, I only deserve happiness,” said the inconsolable mother.

Recently, Yasmin hired lawyers, who now claim that the center in Dilly made a “unforgivable mistake” in caring for Yasmin and her daughter.

“Instead of offering a person refuge from life-threatening violence, ICE detained Yasmine and her child and placed them in unsafe conditions, coupled with negligent medical care and inadequate supervision,” said R. Stanton Jones, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C. law firm Arnold & Porter. , Columbia region.

“Being there, Marie became infected with a respiratory infection, which was practically not treated for almost a month. After it became clear that Marie was seriously ill, ICE simply put the mother and daughter on the street. Yasmin immediately sought medical help for the child, but it was too late. ”

ICE representatives declined to comment specifically on the case of Marie, but said that the agency is serious about medical care.

Five pediatricians who studied the symptoms of Marie, vital signs and medical records in ICE medical journals, which were kept during her child’s stay in Dilly, told VICE News that the course of treatment the girl received was in line with the usual for children with such symptoms.

But Marie eventually died from an infection that was first discovered in Dilly, where there is already a history of complaints about inadequate medical care for children. In July, two doctors from the Department of Homeland Security published a review of the quality of medical care at facilities, including Dilly, over the past four years. Doctors discovered many problems and called the practice of family detention "exploitation and violence against the dignity and health of children and families."

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