Andy Kim
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And there are certainly people that are not getting basic care.
Again, they're not asking for the moon.
They're asking for just a certain baseline of human dignity.
As, as, as we're going, especially as we're, again, keeping them there for indefinite amounts of time.
I mean, there was, I was in the medical isolation area and there was a man there in a wheelchair.
He hadn't left that room in four months because like that facility is just not meant to handle someone with a wheelchair.
So they're like, you're stuck in this room now.
Like, you know, and like not able to go, to go and, and, and leave.
He was like, can I at least be at a hospital?
And frankly, look, there was actually someone who was sent to a hospital, a woman that was sent to a hospital for quite a number of days.
By the time I got there, it was like day 12 or 14.
The family didn't even know where this woman was because ICE wouldn't tell her what hospital that she was at because of security concerns.
So you can't tell them which hospital you're at.
They couldn't tell them the nature of the severity of the problem that she had to be at a hospital.
I mean, she was there for like 12 to 14 days.
that's a significant amount of time in a hospital.
And the family has no idea.
They can't visit them.
And so I asked, like, what can the family do to learn about this?