'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls

[douglas9]

On April 28, a nurse at the Aurora ICE Processing Center near Denver called 911. A woman in custody, four months pregnant, had arrived at the facility’s medical unit, bleeding and in pain. As the staff rushed to get vitals, the dispatcher rattled off questions: How old was she? Was the pregnancy high risk? The nurse hesitated: “She just came to us three days ago.”

On 911 audio obtained by WIRED, the dispatcher’s voice cuts in:

“Is there any sign of life?”
“Have we heard a heartbeat?”
“Does she feel any kicking?”

“We don’t have the equipment to do that,” the nurse replies.

It was just one incident in a spike of emergencies playing out inside Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers nationwide.

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-detention-center-911-emergencies/

[NotHardly]

1. WE treat our pets better than this SH*T they do to people

[orangecrush]

2. What a shit show.

[bdamomma]

3. All we

need is whistleblowers to tell us what is being done to these innocent people in these detention centers.

[wnylib]

4. So, charge the prison staff with illegal abortion caused by willful lack of sufficient care.

[4catsmom]

5. This is a war crime

everyone involved should be prosecuted

[tazcat]

6. So they left her bleeding out for 3 days??? WTF?!!!

[EarthFirst]

7. I pray for this nurse to find courage, conviction and solace to speak out to the countless atrocities...

…that are being perpetuated in these detention centers.

That she also finds a vast support network in doing such that will encourage other whistleblowers to do the same and expose these human rights violations.

We must act now!