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https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-arresting-childrenEndless Monster Behavior From ICE: Family Arrested While Rushing Child to Oregon ER
Parents who are legally applying for US asylum were prevented from getting emergency medical care for their 7-year-old daughter.
BRETT WILKINS
Jan 23, 2026
Advocates sounded the alarm Friday over federal agents arrest last week of a family of legal asylum-seekers apprehended just outside a Portland, Oregon hospital where they had rushed their 7-year-old daughter for emergency medical treatment.
Yohendry De Jesus Crespo and his wife Darianny Liseth González de CrespoVenezuelans with pending asylum claims living in Gresham, Oregonwere rushing their daughter Diana to Adventist Hospital in Portland on January 16 as the child suffered an unstoppable nosebleed.
Friend Ana Linares said the family was arrested, driven to a facility in Tacoma, Washington, and then sent to Texas, where they are being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center near San Antonio.
The facility, which is run by ICE and private prison profiteer CoreCivic, is accused of providing inadequate medical care for children, as well as poor sanitary and health conditions. Detainees also report being served moldy or worm-infested food.
Ruiz said the child remains ill, reportedly suffering from a fever, and has not received basic medical care.
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yellow dahlia
(5,709 posts)I want to scream into the ether!
Initech
(108,591 posts)Fuck ICE! Fuck Kristi Noem! May they all rot in the hottest of hells!
barbtries
(31,290 posts)i just kinda roar at the computer.
ICE "agents" appear to all be psychopaths. total fucking psychopaths. their heartlessness and brutality is rapidly becoming legendary.
travelingthrulife
(5,091 posts)They must nearly all be the crap Trump let out of jail. They are his slaves for life.
yellow dahlia
(5,709 posts)They sell those weird "iron" pills on RWmedia.
yellow dahlia
(5,709 posts)and a license to steal...and a license to kill.
EarlG
(23,592 posts)the same government which is refusing to release the Epstein files is also engaged in institutionalized government child abuse.
cbabe
(6,586 posts)LUZERNE "KIDS FOR CASH" SCANDAL
In 2007, a frantic call from an alarmed parent prompted Juvenile Law Center to investigate irregularities in Pennsylvanias Luzerne County juvenile court. We discovered that hundreds of children routinely appeared before Judge Mark Ciavarella without counsel, were quickly adjudicated delinquent (found guilty) for minor offenses and immediately transferred to out-of-home placements. We petitioned the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2008 to vacate the juveniles adjudications of delinquency and expunge their records.
more doc trailer at link
(Judges closed public juvenile detention center. Funneled kids for minor offenses to private centers for millions in kickbacks)
Initech
(108,591 posts)Attract violence, get violence in return.
malaise
(295,532 posts)What goes around comes around d comes around - humanity and decency are not part of this regime.
Effin monsters indeed.
young_at_heart
(4,033 posts)There have been other days when I felt like throwing up but it finally happened today....it's too much!!
malaise
(295,532 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 23, 2026, 09:35 PM - Edit history (1)
Very hard
Ocelot II
(130,333 posts)How do these people sleep at night after taking away little children? Sick kids? How do they go home to their own children and spouses? "How was work today, dear?" "Oh, the usual. Detained some children, took away an old man in his underwear. Nothing new. What's for dinner?"
travelingthrulife
(5,091 posts)It is what Hitler did as well to build his Nazi force.
young_at_heart
(4,033 posts)I've decided that our country seems to have quite a few mentally deficient men (mostly men) who don't seem to have a conscience! Why don't they care???
Ocelot II
(130,333 posts)We are socially conditioned to expect women to be more compassionate and empathetic than men, and maybe in general we are, but our government is blighted by a woman who kills disobedient puppies, cosplays in front of desperate prisoners, and heads up an organization of goons who abduct and imprison children. And another woman who wears an ostentatious cross, a symbol of divine love, while telling vicious lies about the murdered victim of said goons, and one who presumes to represent the law while knowingly defiling it.
Jack Valentino
(4,913 posts)I don't want to believe that ICE is 'so completely staffed with sociopaths'---
particularly among those who joined prior to this second nightmare Trump admin---
but the worse news is that their recruitment drives now seem targeted to these types of people....
'gun enthusiasts' and such ??
In any case, there are too many of them there, and they are being instructed
that they don't need warrants and have 'immunity' from criminal prosecution,
which is certainly not true....
They need to be reined in , NOW--- MONTHS AGO, in fact!
Certainly NOT budgeted MORE MONEY to continue their GESTAPO NAZI activities!
For those Democratic representatives who vote to give them MORE money at this instance in time,
I have no words.....
joshdawg
(2,954 posts)mommymarine2003
(359 posts)Bayard
(29,479 posts)That may happen yet. Charge those involved with this atrocity for negligent homicide.
I don't recognize my country anymore.
moonshinegnomie
(4,009 posts)travelingthrulife
(5,091 posts)if she dies. It is murder.
TomSlick
(12,982 posts)Just when it surely cannot get worse, ICE says hold my beer.
kevinore
(87 posts)This will not stop as long as we ask, "When will this stop?" It will only stop after we organize a coherent resistance, start, and join in general strikes, boycotts, and other demonstrations of civil disobedience.
travelingthrulife
(5,091 posts)OMGWTF
(5,101 posts)Greg Bonvino, the pocket-sized Fascist said that handcuffing a five-year-old kid "is as good as it gets." THIS SHIT IS NOT OKAY!
B.See
(8,341 posts)outrage would lose Trump and his fascist goons a hundred thousand votes.
But it hasn't because most of his/their supporters are equally as sick.
Klarkashton
(5,250 posts)This means the asylum system is gone and it's retroactively canceled.
Dave Bowman
(7,102 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,811 posts)...from where Border Patrol agents shot two people in their truck two weeks ago.
Is there something particularly attractive about Portland Adventist Medical Center?