Immigrant facilities subpar
Chronicle review shows ICE not enforcing its own standards of care
By SUSAN CARROLL
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Feb. 5, 2010, 12:56AM

Luis Dubegel-Paez, a 60-year-old Cuban immigrant, lay on the floor of Rolling Plains Detention Center with no pulse, his face flushed, his pupils dilated.

For months before he collapsed at the detention center near Abilene, he had been complaining to nurses about chest pain and heart problems, asking to see a doctor.

“Can't stand the pain,” Dubegel-Paez wrote on a sick call slip on Jan. 1, 2008.

In response, he was treated by a nurse at the center's medical clinic and given cold medicine. As the weeks passed, he filed more urgent requests to see a doctor...
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