Byline: Megan O'Matz; 2013-01-06; WPTV;
Report: Working with Migrants; Shadowing the Undocumented
Tags: illegal immigrants, immigrants, undercover investigation
Article Links". . .In a daring move, two young adults, both illegal immigrants brought by their families to the United States as children, turned themselves in to gain access to the center and expose what they claimed were human rights abuses and policy violations by federal authorities.Once inside, they said they found people unjustly arrested and subjected to lengthy and unnecessary confinement, and reported incidents of substandard or callous medical care, including a woman taken for ovarian surgery and returned the same day, still bleeding, to her cell, and a man who urinated blood for days but wasn't taken to see a doctor. . ."
Description:Immigrants went undercover to investigate the mistreatment of illegal immigrants who were imprisoned for no legitimate reason.
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