A mother sued the city of Arizona because doctors had misdiagnosed her daughter's illness

A Guatemalan mother interposed today a lawsuit in the city of Eloy, Arizona, following the death of his daughter, a minor in May of last year so-called for not receiving adequate medical treatment in an immigration detention center.

In the lawsuit, Yazmin Juarez argues that his daughter Marie, aged one year, developed a respiratory disease South Texas Family Residential Center, located in Dilley, Texas, and the medical staff did not follow her properly before releasing her.

The lawsuit goes however to the city of Eloy (Arizona) which received funding from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau (ICE) to officially administer Texas facilities for four years.

Eloy paid the operator of the private prison CoreCivic will operate in Dilley under an agreement given to ICE lawyers.

The lawsuit states that Mariee developed a high fever a week after entering Dilley March 5, 2018.

According to the legal document, his mother asked repeated medical treatment, but the medical staff misdiagnosed the minor's illness and The right medicine has not been prescribed.

A mother and her daughter were released on March 25 and they went to New Jersey, where, with their loved ones, Juarez asked for medical help.

Mariee was hospitalized for respiratory failure for six weeks and died at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on May 10, according to Juarez's lawyers.

The death of Mariee revisits the complaint of immigrant organizations, who have repeatedly denounced precarious medical care receive migrants in detention centers.

December 8, the Guatemalan girl Seven-year-old Jakelin Caal died at El Paso Hospital, Texasfor severe dehydration after being arrested with his father after illegally crossing the Mexican border.

Felipe Gómez Alonzo, another eight-year-old Guatemalan migrant boy, died the same month on Christmas Eve guard of the US Border Patrol.

With information from EFEUSA