Posted on 08/11/2015 12:06:25 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Five immigrant mothers held in facilities with their children are seeking millions of dollars in damages from the U.S. government for what they contend is psychological and physical harm as a result of being detained, according to court papers filed Monday.
Andrew Free, a Nashville immigration lawyer representing the women, filed tort claims against the Department of Homeland Security, alleging the detained women and their children received inadequate medical care, suffered psychological trauma and in some cases were wrongfully imprisoned.
The tort claims, a precursor to a federal lawsuit, also target U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE oversees two family detention centers in South Texas and another in Pennsylvania that currently hold about 1,400 people.
The filing comes just days after the government fought a federal judge's ruling calling for the immediate release of children and their mothers from detention, saying it intends to turn the facilities into short-term processing centers and that limiting family detention could spark another surge in immigrants from Central America.
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Give them each $100, and a free ride back to wherever place they are from.
Could be true, but sounds like a strategy.
Who wouldn’t want a ticket to permanent residency and a big government check?
Illegal invaders, not “immigrants”
Then get out of my country.
Ship them back to Mexico and charge their lawyer for the costs.
Does illegally crossing the border give you a magic carpet ride to a ambulance chasing lawyer who teaches you how to game the system?
Love the comments on the site.
lawyers and illegals , the perfect storm
deport them all
Hopeful winners of the Lawsuit Lottery.
Let’s be direct.
Bulls**t.
Sounds exactly like a strategy.
Sounds like they have been well coached.
Send the illegal “immigrants” to a Mexican prison.....PROBLEM SOLVED!
Invaders are shot in many other countries. She’s lucky to be alive. NO ONE asked her to come here!
She should have NO rights of any kind
Stay in your own country and be safe.
Let me get this straight. These people come over here to escape supposedly horrid conditions where they came from, then turn around and sue us for care that wasn’t up to their standards? I would bet a hundred dollar bill they will win the case. They have already sued our gov’t and private property owners for protecting themselves and won.
Where I work(hospital) illegals say the same thing.
They are disrespected,we are racists,we won’t feed them ,they demand you speak Spanish to them or find them an interpreter (at $70/hr)
I think they are looking for a big payout.
Send them packing.They have been indoctrinated by some legal
cockroaches.
Wow, good for the Yahoo users!
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