The <http://www.nytimes.com/>New York Times reports the sad and
revolting story of a man whose life in New York City diverged from
"probable green card" to "detainee treated worse than convicted
felon". In 2007, "Hiu Lui Ng was a New Yorker: a computer engineer
with a job in the Empire State Building, a house in Queens, a wife
who is a United States citizen and two American-born sons." When he
went for a green card hearing, he was detained for an immigration
violation and taken to jail.
In April, Mr. Ng began complaining of excruciating back pain. By
mid-July, he could no longer walk or stand. And last Wednesday, two
days after his 34th birthday, he died in the custody of Immigration
and Customs Enforcement in a Rhode Island hospital, his spine
fractured and his body riddled with cancer that had gone undiagnosed
and untreated for months.
Link: <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/nyregion/13detain.html>New
York Times article about Hiu Lui Ng
Link:
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration_detention_us/incustody_deaths/index.html>New
York Times' In-Custody Deaths Topic Page -- The page collects NY
Times articles and outside links to related material on the problem
of detainee deaths in the United States. As they say on the front
page of the section: "On any given day, about 31,000 people who are
not American citizens are held in detention in a patchwork of county
jails, privately run prisons and federal facilities while the
government decides whether to deport them. Getting details about
those who die in custody is a difficult undertaking left to family
members, advocacy groups and lawyers."
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