CALL TO ACTION – ICE Denying Family Access to Hospitalized Man from Otay Mesa

Update 5/13/2020 – Thanks to ongoing pressure on ICE and community mobilization, Noe was briefly able to speak to his family on May 12th.

Noe is still hospitalized and very sick due to the negligence of ICE and CoreCivic.

We ask that you continue to share his story and demand action for him and everyone in ICE custody!

*Urgent call to action to support Noe during his hospitalization and ensure he has access to his family*

Message from Erik in D-Pod of Otay Mesa Facility about Noe

Message from Hever in M-Pod about Noe (Spanish)

Advocates in San Diego are working with the family of Noe, a 41 year old man who was born in El Salvador, who has been detained in the Otay Mesa Detention Facility. His family is desperately trying to reach him after he was moved from that facility to a local hospital.

ICE is prohibiting Noe from making any phone calls, even to his own mother, who says that she feels that he has been kidnapped. They have refused to even tell her where he is. NOE AND HIS FAMILY NEED URGENT SUPPORT

Take Action!

We Demand

Noe be allowed to speak directly to his family and share information about his status and condition

Noe be released from ICE custody and monitoring and be allowed to seek medical treatment and make independent medical decisions with his family.

Call ICE Field Director Gregory Archambeault
619-436-0410
619-557-6117
gregory.archambeault@dhs.gov

Senator Dianne Feinstein
Main: (619) 231-9712

California Governor Gavin Newsom
(916) 445-2841 
Gina.DaSilva@gov.ca.gov

San Diego Public Health Officer Wilma Wooten
(619) 542–4170

Reach out to elected officials and ask them to take action!

Background
Noe has underlying medical problems and takes blood thinners because of blood clots, he had a pulmonary embolism in 2018 and he has ulcers. Despite his medical history ICE has refused to set him free.

On Monday May 4th, he woke up with an ear-splitting headache, nausea, fever, and cold sweats. No medical staff attended to him until the evening of Tuesday the 5th, when they gave him Tylenol and did a COVID test. He was left with other detained people in the general population until the results came back on Friday and he learned he tested positive for COVID-19.

Noe was taken to a hospital on Saturday, May 9th, but CoreCivic guards refused to tell his family where he had been taken or what medical conditions he has. His mother spent all weekend, including Mother’s Day, looking unsuccessfully for her son. Neither ICE nor CoreCivic would provide the family any information.

Without the assistance of ICE, the family was able to find out that Noe is currently at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, but have been denied any information about Noe’s medical status or any ability to speak to him. The family was told by hospital staff that individuals in custody are closely guarded and are not allowed to communicate with anyone, not even family.

ICE’s actions with this medically vulnerable individual are incredibly inhumane and barbaric. His family has the legal right to have information about his medical status and to communicate with him. Denying these rights to someone who may be critically ill is torture.

We Demand Justice For Noe and his family

For additional information contact – refugeecaravan (at) gmail.com