Undocumented Woman With Brain Tumor Removed From Hospital

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Sara Beltrán Hernández, an undocumented immigrant who was diagnosed with a brain tumor while in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE), was removed from the hospital where she was located in Fort Worth, Texas., and taken back to a detention center where she was, and her family is distressed that she may die. This was stated by a representative of the family yesterday.

Melissa Zúñiga, legal assistant at the law firm of Marcia Kasdan, in charge of representing her, said that the 26-year-old woman, originally from El Salvador, was detained after trying to migrate to the Big Apple without the relevant documents. She has since been transferred to the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, waiting for her case to be resolved, as her family members have tried to apply for her asylum.

According to the Daily News newspaper earlier this month, Beltrán Hernández began to experience intense headaches, nosebleeds and memory loss. A few days ago it collapsed and she was later taken to a hospital where doctors diagnosed her with a brain tumor and determined that she needed surgery.

Despite her delicate health condition, ICE agents came to remove her from the hospital and, according to what the woman told Zúñiga, they would have tied "her hands and ankles even though she was in the condition she was in," while adding that the woman still "complains that she is in a lot of pain."

Just this weekend, before being removed from the medical center, the patient was on the waiting list for her surgery. However, when family members called the hospital Wednesday night, they were informed that there would be no surgery.

"ICE was preparing her papers to return her to the detention center," said Zúñiga. At the same time that she reported that they have communicated with everyone, including the White House, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and even former President Barak Obama, trying to find a solution to the patient's situation.

Now the future of Beltrán Hernández, both immigration and his health status, is uncertain and adds to the series of immigration cases that have drawn national attention after the new immigration policies of Donald Trump.