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Playwrighting mentor and friend Christine Evans posted a link to this article about man who died in an immigration detention center here in the U.S.
From the New York Times:
“He was 17 when he came to New York from Hong Kong in 1992 with his
parents and younger sister, eyeing the skyline like any newcomer.
Fifteen years later, Hiu Lui Ng was a New Yorker: a computer engineer
with a job in the Empire State Building, a house in Queens, a wife who
is a United States citizen and two American-born sons.
But when Mr. Ng, who had overstayed a visa years earlier, went to
immigration headquarters in Manhattan last summer for his final
interview for a green card, he was swept into immigration detention and
shuttled through jails and detention centers in three New England
states.
In April, Mr. Ng began complaining of excruciating back pain. By
mid-July, he could no longer walk or stand. And last Wednesday, two
days after his 34th birthday, he died in the custody of Immigration and
Customs Enforcement in a Rhode Island hospital, his spine fractured and
his body riddled with cancer that had gone undiagnosed and untreated
for months.” Halfway through the article I started crying. It's an important read, but heartbreaking.
Read the full article here.
-M
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