Claire's Brother
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first heard Jun 2026
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And the way that these immigration officials talk about Hullet in this kind of mini documentary by El Informe is also quite transphobic.
Videos published by El Informe appear to show Hullet curled up on the floor next to dozens of other people who were sleeping in two small rooms inside of immigration detention.
Some of the notes and videos uncovered by El Informe appear to show that Hullet was suffering from a mental health crisis throughout the more than two months they were in immigration detention.
Hullet's mom told El Informe that Hullet suffered from schizophrenia.
They also wrote about having asthma and being allergic to milk.
Per El Informe, Hullet's mom confirmed to them that they needed an inhaler and an EpiPen.
Although news reports say that DGM provided Hullet with some medicine for the apparent mental health crisis they were going through,
I can't find any reporting that says that they ever got an inhaler or an EpiPen that they needed.
A coroner's report found that they died from a heart attack, according to Noticias Sin, a national news website there.
Her information obtained by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, quote, at least four facilities that are being used as immigration detention centers present overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, deficient food, and lack of access to health care.
The same report states that a newborn died in Jaina on November 14 of last year.
People I've spoken to who've been detained in Jaina over the years have described the conditions there as horrific, particularly as the Dominican government has ramped up deportation efforts massively against the country's Haitian population.
Detention centers are routinely overcrowded and people have very little access to food or water for days from what they tell me.
Per the people I've spoken to, detainees are sometimes beaten or extorted by guards to be able to call their families to get their documents or for food.
And I talk a little bit more about this later on in the episode.
But the reason that I started with Hallett's story is twofold.
First, because their death was significantly undercovered by English language media.
And second, because they died as a direct result of an immigration system that systematically abuses Haitian immigrants and has been historically shaped by the U.S.
military and the American border apparatus.
While they're organized in different ways within the law enforcement structures of their respective countries, there are a lot of similarities between the DGM and ICE in the United States, particularly in their tactics and how they've terrorized immigrant communities.
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