The man held by ICE was imprisoned for weeks in Alaska. Now he is in the hospital, fighting with tuberculosis

AND Peruvian Man was hospitalized because of tuberculosis after stopping in deprivation of liberty The center run by USA immigration and customs enforcement (ICE), according to a lawyer representing a man.

The man was detained in a prison in Alaska along with 40 other people after he was taken to Anchorage from the Regional Immigration Cresting Tacoma. This transport comes from a contract between ice and a state to solve the problem of overpopulation, as reported Anchorage Daily News.

According to his lawyer, Sean Quirk, a man who was looking for asylum remained in the Cook Inlet pre -trial facility from June 8 to June 30. Then he was transported back to the ice custody facility in Tacoma, Washington.

Quirk was supposedly unable to contact his client for many days, calling objects where he was allegedly detained many times. He only learned about the hospitalization of his client only if he did not appear on a virtual interrogation.

The lawyer tried to talk on the phone with his client by calling numerous Tacoma hospitals to contact him. At some point, the nurse tried to convey the phone to her client, while the quirk was on the phone, but the ice agent allegedly intervened and prevented the man from calling.

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

State correction officials stated that the detainees were properly checked in terms of potential diseases before their arrest, and also claimed that there was no major explosion in the facility.

In addition, from Wednesday afternoon, no cases (tuberculosis) were reported in any facilities, “said the spokesman from the Alaska Correction Department.