"Ill and in Pain-Detainee Dies in U.S.Hands"

he died of untreated cancer and had a fractured spine...

i can not click and drag to post from article so please read this........i could`t believe what i read

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/nyregion/13detain.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin



http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/investigation_request.pdf

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/wong_affadavit.PDF


from.....
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/13/man-whose-us-immigra.html

the worst thing.

'echo other cases that have prompted legislation, now before the House Judiciary Committee, to set mandatory standards for care in immigration detention.'

Just what we need, legislation.

How do we require 'those in authority' to use common sense?

I remember hearing stories from World War Two about German soldiers surrendering to American and British soldiers instead of advancing Russian soldiers because the Russians were dealing out the atrocities as much as they were receiving them from the Germans.

and you just know NOTHING will come of it....

:cry:

He was almost in tears. Cruelty, torture and murder by the state.

there is no excuse for this kind of shit happening, and continuing to happen.

I'm so ashamed and saddened.


k&r

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/13/man-whose-us-immigra.html


Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children

Posted by Cory Doctorow, August 13, 2008 10:39 PM | permalink
A Hong Kong computer programmer who had legally resided in the US for 15 years (since he was 17) and fathered two American children went for his final green card interview and was locked up, detained until he died of cancer that the DHS refused to treat him for. He had overstayed a visa (the DHS sent a key notice to the wrong address), and this prompted the DHS to lock him away and demand that he waive all right to immigration appeal and be immediately deported. In detention, his complaints of excruciating back pain were treated as fakery, and he was dragged around in shackles after he lost the ability to walk, taken on long, bumpy drives while official demanded that he drop his immigration appeals. The jailers who caused his death were private contractors with fat deals with the DHS to lock up immigration detainees.

As he lay dying, his family -- wife and two children, aged 1 and 3 -- were denied access to him while the warden considered their request to visit.

"Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses..."

But his condition continued to deteriorate. Once a robust man who stood nearly six feet and weighed 200 pounds, his relatives said, Mr. Ng looked like a shrunken and jaundiced 80-year-old.

“He said, ‘I told the nursing department, I’m in pain, but they don’t believe me,’ ” his sister recalled. “ ‘They tell me, stop faking.’ ”

Soon, according to court papers, he had to rely on other detainees to help him reach the toilet, bring him food and call his family; he no longer received painkillers, because he could not stand in line to collect them. On July 26, Andy Wong, a lawyer associated with Mr. Cox, came to see the detainee, but had to leave without talking to him, he said, because Mr. Ng was too weak to walk to the visiting area, and a wheelchair was denied.

On July 30, according to an affidavit by Mr. Wong, he was contacted by Larry Smith, a deportation officer in Hartford, who told him on a speakerphone, with Mr. Ng present, that he wanted to resolve the case, either by deporting Mr. Ng, or “releasing him to the streets.” Officer Smith said that no exam by an outside doctor would be allowed, and that Mr. Ng would not be given a wheelchair.

and badgers their Congressional delegation until something is done.

And I do hope it's for an eternity.