A five-year-old child named Briany was diagnosed with Shigella at the Berks County Residential Center. She had diarrhea for four months straight before she got help. The retention center was saying that they had checked all the children, but when the mother’s asked for evidence ICE was not willing to give any information. The daughter of the mother was willing to speed her deportation if it meant that her daughter could get any help.
“In an email response, US Customs & Immigration Enforcement (ICE) wrote: “Thank you! You may dissolve your case at any time and return to your country. Please see the medical department in reference to health-related issues.”
Instead of them saying that the child will get help and should have gotten help beforehand remind them about their deportation at the end of the email. I believe that ICE is mostly focused on deporting people and as long as they get someone to leave the country they will help them solve a quick problem.
There should be clinical help in retention centers because there are a lot of people that can get affected. There are many people in the centers and there can be many diseases going around which need to be treated.
I believe that things like this happen because the retention centers focus more on deported those who are not legal in the United States. Cases like these should not be happening because people should be taken care of as much as a citizen. They should have the right to seek help. If there is no help the center looks bad because they aren’t doing anything to help a child. There should be more help being given.
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