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Kate Morrissey

Months of Pain, Delayed Care: An Asylum Seeker’s Health Crisis in ICE Custody

The Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego. Photo: Jason Doiy/Getty Images.

A Colombian asylum seeker who has spent a year in immigration custody at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego said that she has a serious infection in her urinary tract and kidneys and is not receiving proper medical treatment.

The woman, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, said the infection started more than seven months ago and that the medical care she has received has been delayed and insufficient to address the issue.

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