A woman owned in Arizona by the American border patrol for having exceeded her visa died by suicide, according to the Democrat deputy Pramila Jayapal.
The woman, a 52 -year -old Chinese national, was first picked up in California after being determined that she had exceeded her B1 / B2 visitor, Jayapal said in a statement. She was then sent to Yuma station in Arizona where she stayed until her death on March 29.
The Tucson Sentinel first pointed out the death of the woman, claiming that the border patrol officials had not followed internal policies concerning someone in detention – and then only provided a declaration after the Sentinel made investigations.
The border patrol in the Yuma sector reported in a social media position that two people – a 38 -year -old man and the woman, two Chinese nationals – had been arrested on March 26 during a vehicle stop near Needles, California. The agents seized more than $ 220,000 wrapped in aluminum foil in two bags of traffic jams which, according to managers, were the product of an unpertified illegal activity.
Jayapal said that “initial reports” suggest that agents of the border patrol failed to make well-being checks required before the death of the woman.
“When customs and border protection agents (CBP) put a person in police custody, they are responsible for their well-being and their complete judgment,” said the Jayapal Declaration. “This detainee died by suicide and the first reports indicated that certain CBP procedures to guarantee the safety and well-being of people in detention were not carried out.”
Jayapal, a classification member of the subcommittee of the House supervising immigration, said that if social protection checks were recorded, those responsible for the death could not check if the checks had really occurred.
According to Jayapal’s Declaration, surveillance images have shown that the woman was creating a flowing knot and binds it around her neck – but no medical response occurred for almost two hours.
“While the Bureau of Professional Responsibility of the CBP (OPR) investigates this death, they must provide answers on the reasons why these social protection checks were not made and wrongly, and why this woman was able to die by suicide without any childcare intervention,” said Jayapal.
She also expressed her concerns for conditions in detention establishments in the midst of an immigration repression that the second Trump administration made in the first three months in power.
The deputy said that reports have constantly shown that the United States is not obligations to “treat all detained persons with dignity and equity”.
A spokesperson for the border patrol told Tucson Sentinel that the woman had been found “insensitive in a cell” at the border patrol station of Yuma on March 29. The border patrol staff provided medical assistance to women before emergency medical services transported her to hospital where she was declared dead, spokeswoman for Sentinel.
“All deaths in detention are tragic, taken seriously and are entirely investigated by the CBP,” said the spokesperson.
