Transgender HIV Positive El Salvador Migrant Woman Dies in ICE Custody

ICE officials reported on Jun 2, 2019, 25-year-old Johana Medina Leon a transgender migrant lady who came to a New Mexico Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehension core from El Salvador died on Jun 2 in a sanatorium in El Paso, Texas.

Leon initial became ill while during a apprehension center, and her genocide has caused inspection of ICE comforts and how they subvert detainees who are happy and transgender.

After a transgender lady complained she was carrying chest heedfulness on May 28, during a Otero County Processing Center, she was taken to a hospital.

Officials contend a newcomer asked for an HIV exam that day, and it returned with a certain result.

El Paso, Texas, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operation margin bureau executive Corey A. Price expelled a matter saying:

This is another example, that is unfortunate, of a chairman enters a United States illegally with an illness that is unscreened and untreated.

Our southern limit has a predicament with a vast series of bootleg aliens lured by tellurian smugglers who like to the, with a primary idea of creation a profit. They have no courtesy for tellurian good being or tellurian life.

Many of a aliens come to a United States, not meaningful they have diseases or have untreated conditions. These issues are mostly not diagnosed until they have a medical hearing in a apprehension center.

ICE officials have pronounced a transgender lady presented herself on Apr 11 during a Port of Entry during Paso del Norte in El Paso, Texas. On May 18, she upheld a compulsory interview, that dynamic that she had a convincing emanate per harm in her home nation of El Salvador.

The day she was taken out of custody, she was eliminated to a sanatorium in Texas.

Nathan Craig who is a member of a Chihuahua Desert organisation Advocate Visitors with Immigrants in Detention pronounced that he was in hold with other transgender women who were in ICE control during Otero. He mentioned they complained of bad diagnosis during a facility.

He alleges one of a transgender women told him they were ill and were not given medical treatment.

Grecia, an romantic for transgender people in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, pronounced she visited Leon whom she referred to as Joa, a morning she died in a hospital.

She pronounced she was dumbfounded by her condition and feared she would have a identical predestine as a transgender lady who died on May 25, 2018.

Roxsana Hernandez Rodriguez, a transgender migrant woman, died in a apprehension core in Mexico while in ICE custody.

Grecia pronounced in a press recover that she perceived a phone call from a sanatorium during 9:00 informing her that Leon had died.

The autopsy news for Rodriguez expelled in Apr showed she died from complications associated to AIDS.

A second autopsy conducted during a ask of a Transgender Law Center showed she died from complications from AIDS and dehydration.

Written by Barbara Sobel

Sources:

The Washington Post: Transgender lady migrant who had been in ICE control dies after descending ill
My San Antonio: Transgender lady migrant who had been in ICE control dies after descending ill
CNN: Transgender lady migrant dies after illness in ICE custody, news says

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