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In ICE custody, medical delays drive record deaths

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The pain started soon after immigration agents seized the bespectacled 39-year-old man, who had lived in the United States since he was 5, at the Orange County car wash where he worked last August. They took him to the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County, where he developed an abscess under the skin on his left buttock. It filled with pus and bacteria, rotting muscle and fat as it pushed into his pelvis and abdomen, threatening to flood his bloodstream with toxins. Ayala-Uribe complained to medical staff about rectal pain, rating it “10 out of 10,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement records show, but documents do not indicate he was ever physically examined by staff members at Adelanto. On Sept. 18, a nurse gave him over-the-counter painkillers and fiber supplements used to relieve digestion problems, then sent him back to his cell. Three days later, sweating and trembling, Ayala-Uribe was finally taken to a hospital. While waiting for treatment, he suffered septic

Ismael Ayala-Uribe was in agony. The pain started soon after immigration agents seized the bespectacled 39-year-old man, who had lived in the United States since he was 5, at the Orange County car wash where he worked last August. They took him to the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County, where he developed an abscess under the skin on his left buttock. It filled with pus and bacteria, rotting muscle and fat as it pushed into his pelvis and abdomen, threatening to flood his bloodstream with toxins. Ayala-Uribe complained to medical staff about rectal pain, rating it “10…

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