SIGN: Free Mariana from ICE custody

Mariana is suffering from medical issues, but ICE doesn't care.

Dear MoveOn member,

In April, Mariana was separated from her two children, 5 and 7 years old, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She is suffering from medical issues that have caused her to lose consciousness, and the doctor in the detention center where she is being held says she needs specialized medical care, but ICE has done nothing to move her or provide that care.¹

Sign this petition to ICE demanding that Mariana be reunited with her children and receive the medical care she needs.

When Mariana lost consciousness in custody a few weeks ago, she was taken to the emergency room, where she was told she needed to see a gynecologist for specialized care. But this has not happened.

The doctor at the ICE facility told her she is at risk of needing a hysterectomy if she doesn't receive appropriate care soon, and an independent medical expert who reviewed her records confirmed this grave concern that her continued detention could impact her future fertility.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has accused Mariana of being affiliated with a resistance group in Angola known as FLEC, but her attorneys at the National Immigrant Justice Center have found that these allegations are completely false and unfounded. DHS has not produced any evidence of such ties, despite having had the opportunity to do so at Mariana's immigration court hearing. Instead, they continue to keep her in custody, separated from her children.

Mariana needs to be in the care of her family and with her children. Mariana and her children have a lawfully present sponsor, a green-card-holding cousin in Texas. There is no reason not to release Mariana immediately.

We demand that ICE immediately release Mariana, reunite her with her children, and stop the cruel trauma that is unnecessarily being inflicted on her family each and every passing day that she continues to be detained.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thank you for your help.

—Paola Luisi, Families Belong Together

Source:

1. Tweet by the National Immigrant Justice Center, July 17, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/68177?t=9&akid=239456%2E10220574%2E7rMH_G

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