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cbabe

(6,586 posts)
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 06:08 PM Jan 23

'Endless Monster Behavior From ICE': Family Arrested While Rushing Child to Oregon ER

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-arresting-children

‘Endless 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 Crespo—Venezuelans with pending asylum claims living in Gresham, Oregon—were 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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'Endless Monster Behavior From ICE': Family Arrested While Rushing Child to Oregon ER (Original Post) cbabe Jan 23 OP
Kick dalton99a Jan 23 #1
When will it stop? yellow dahlia Jan 23 #2
I know, right? Initech Jan 23 #12
Yup. yellow dahlia Jan 23 #30
sometimes i do. barbtries Jan 23 #15
They also appear to be on drugs, especially testosterone. travelingthrulife Jan 23 #18
Good point. yellow dahlia Jan 23 #29
They are criminals, with guns and gear and agency... yellow dahlia Jan 23 #28
I don't think it's a coincidence that EarlG Jan 23 #3
LUZERNE "KIDS FOR CASH" SCANDAL cbabe Jan 23 #6
Also putting a woman who is famous for murdering her dog in charge is a move. Initech Jan 23 #13
As we say malaise Jan 23 #4
Humanity and decency are not in their vocabulary! young_at_heart Jan 23 #16
Yes it is hard to process malaise Jan 23 #17
Are there so many sociopaths in this country that ICE can be so completely staffed with them? Ocelot II Jan 23 #5
Many are the J6 people he released from jail. They are his slaves for life. travelingthrulife Jan 23 #19
"How do they sleep at night?" young_at_heart Jan 23 #22
And a few morally deficient women, too. Ocelot II Jan 23 #24
We only hear about "the worst of the worst" who manage to 'make bad news'! Jack Valentino Jan 23 #25
trump's gestapo strikes again! joshdawg Jan 23 #7
I live in Gresham. This is the first I have heard of this. I would expect this to be on the local news tonight. mommymarine2003 Jan 23 #8
What if this little girl had died? Bayard Jan 23 #9
charge them with manslaughter moonshinegnomie Jan 23 #10
Withholding medical care when she has intractable bleeding is NOT manslaughter travelingthrulife Jan 23 #20
There appears to be no bottom. TomSlick Jan 23 #11
We can ask, when will it stop, but... kevinore Jan 23 #14
So what are you organizing. Is it nationwide? travelingthrulife Jan 23 #21
These people are sociopaths and psychopaths. OMGWTF Jan 23 #23
One would THINK each and every B.See Jan 23 #26
So anyone with a pending asylum claim is detained and deported now. Klarkashton Jan 23 #27
The military and police rejected these losers so now they're having a blast. Dave Bowman Jan 23 #31
This arrest is literally across the street... Thunderbeast Jan 23 #32

barbtries

(31,290 posts)
15. sometimes i do.
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 08:27 PM
Jan 23

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)
18. They also appear to be on drugs, especially testosterone.
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 08:41 PM
Jan 23

They must nearly all be the crap Trump let out of jail. They are his slaves for life.

yellow dahlia

(5,709 posts)
28. They are criminals, with guns and gear and agency...
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 09:26 PM
Jan 23

and a license to steal...and a license to kill.

EarlG

(23,592 posts)
3. I don't think it's a coincidence that
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 06:13 PM
Jan 23

the same government which is refusing to release the Epstein files is also engaged in institutionalized government child abuse.

cbabe

(6,586 posts)
6. LUZERNE "KIDS FOR CASH" SCANDAL
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 06:35 PM
Jan 23
https://jlc.org/luzerne-kids-cash-scandal

LUZERNE "KIDS FOR CASH" SCANDAL

In 2007, a frantic call from an alarmed parent prompted Juvenile Law Center to investigate irregularities in Pennsylvania’s 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)
13. Also putting a woman who is famous for murdering her dog in charge is a move.
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 08:12 PM
Jan 23

Attract violence, get violence in return.

malaise

(295,532 posts)
4. As we say
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 06:24 PM
Jan 23

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)
16. Humanity and decency are not in their vocabulary!
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 08:30 PM
Jan 23

There have been other days when I felt like throwing up but it finally happened today....it's too much!!

Ocelot II

(130,333 posts)
5. Are there so many sociopaths in this country that ICE can be so completely staffed with them?
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 06:30 PM
Jan 23

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)
19. Many are the J6 people he released from jail. They are his slaves for life.
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 08:43 PM
Jan 23

It is what Hitler did as well to build his Nazi force.

young_at_heart

(4,033 posts)
22. "How do they sleep at night?"
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 08:55 PM
Jan 23

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)
24. And a few morally deficient women, too.
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 09:05 PM
Jan 23

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)
25. We only hear about "the worst of the worst" who manage to 'make bad news'!
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 09:13 PM
Jan 23

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.....



mommymarine2003

(359 posts)
8. I live in Gresham. This is the first I have heard of this. I would expect this to be on the local news tonight.
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 07:26 PM
Jan 23

Bayard

(29,479 posts)
9. What if this little girl had died?
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 07:44 PM
Jan 23

That may happen yet. Charge those involved with this atrocity for negligent homicide.

I don't recognize my country anymore.

travelingthrulife

(5,091 posts)
20. Withholding medical care when she has intractable bleeding is NOT manslaughter
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 08:45 PM
Jan 23

if she dies. It is murder.

TomSlick

(12,982 posts)
11. There appears to be no bottom.
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 08:08 PM
Jan 23

Just when it surely cannot get worse, ICE says hold my beer.

kevinore

(87 posts)
14. We can ask, when will it stop, but...
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 08:25 PM
Jan 23

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.

OMGWTF

(5,101 posts)
23. These people are sociopaths and psychopaths.
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 08:59 PM
Jan 23

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)
26. One would THINK each and every
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 09:16 PM
Jan 23

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)
27. So anyone with a pending asylum claim is detained and deported now.
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 09:21 PM
Jan 23

This means the asylum system is gone and it's retroactively canceled.

Thunderbeast

(3,811 posts)
32. This arrest is literally across the street...
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 10:43 PM
Jan 23

...from where Border Patrol agents shot two people in their truck two weeks ago.

Is there something particularly attractive about Portland Adventist Medical Center?

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