"Andrea Pedro-Francisco, 23, was scheduled to have an ovarian cyst removed. Then ICE arrested her."
"Immigrant detainee pleads with ICE to let her have surgery"
"Pedro-Francisco, 23, is a house cleaner from Guatemala who came to the U.S. in 2019 where she had been living without legal status, according to ICE.
Her arrest occurred five days before she was scheduled to have surgery to remove a golf-ball sized ovarian cyst and have it checked for cancer.
ICE first sent her to Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, a for-profit detention center operating under a government contract.
Since it opened a year ago, Scripps News has documented complaints about lack of health care and other conditions inside Camp East Montana, a complex of tent-like structures quickly stood up on the Fort Bliss Army post last summer.
While there, Pedro-Francisco saw medical staff seven times and went to the emergency room once, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, but she never received the surgery her doctor ordered.
“Her condition has worsened because she has still not received the surgery that is needed, that is urgently needed, and her body is continuing to suffer with this cyst that needs to be removed,” said Amy Fischer, director of refugee and migrant rights at Amnesty International."
~ Patrick Terpstra
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