A mother whose toddler died after being detained at an ICE facility is suing the U.S. government
A mother who says her child died because she did not receive proper medical treatment while they were held in an immigration detention center is filing a legal claim against the U.S. government.
Yazmin Juarez and her one-year-old daughter, Mariee, were detained for three weeks in March at a facility in Dilley, Texas, having come to the U.S. from Guatemala, per CNN. Her attorney says Mariee became ill shortly after they arrived, but she did not receive proper medical care at the detention center. The two were discharged "after it became clear that Mariee was gravely ill," Juarez's attorney says, and Mariee was hospitalized for respiratory failure soon after. But Juarez's attorney says by that point "it was too late," and Mariee died six weeks later. "Mariee entered Dilley a healthy baby girl and 20 days later was discharged a gravely ill child with a life-threatening respiratory infection," Juarez's attorney said.
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