The ice owned by ice was imprisoned in Alaska for weeks. Now he is in the hospital to fight against tuberculosis

A Peruvian man was hospitalized for tuberculosis after being detained in a detention center led by American immigration and the application of customs (ICE), according to a lawyer representing man.

The man was detained in an Alaska prison alongside 40 other people after being transported by anchorage of a regional immigration detention center in Tacoma. This transport came from an agreement between ice and the State to try to attack overcrowding, as reported by Anchorage Daily News.

The man, who was looking for asylum, remained in the installation of Cook Inlet Prefring from June 8 to June 30, according to his lawyer Sean Quirk. He was then transported by plane to the Ice Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington.

Quirk could not have come into contact with his client for days, calling the installations in which he would have been detained several times. He only learned of the hospitalization of his client when he did not appear for a virtual audience.

The lawyer tried to speak to his client by phone, calling for many hospitals in the Tacoma region to get in touch with him. At one point, a nurse tried to give a phone to her client while Quirk was on the call, but an ice agent would have intervened and prevented the man from calling.

Quirk was finally able to contact his client. The way man has contracted tuberculosis or where he contracted it is still unknown.

The officials of the State correctional services said that the prisoners had been properly detected for potential diseases before their detention, and also said that no epidemic had occurred in the establishment.

In addition, on Wednesday afternoon, there was “no reported case of (tuberculosis) in any installation,” said a spokesperson for the Alaska Correctional Services department.

Originally published on Latin Times