Man Says ICE Isn’t Treating His Cancer — and His Isn’t the Only Case of Neglect

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement took José into its custody at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego in January, he told medical staff at the facility that he had colon cancer. Since then, his symptoms have worsened, he said, and he has begged them for treatment — to no avail. “They have ignored me,” José said in Spanish. “They’ve ignored all the times I’ve been bleeding.”…

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