LSU nursing grad, detained by ICE for 6 months, may self-deport: 'I feel hopeless all the time'

[douglas9]

Vilma Palacios had just graduated from the LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing and accepted a job with Touro Infirmary when she was arrested by ICE agents and sent to the processing center in Basile — where she has been detained for six months.

Palacios, 22, said she was deemed ineligible for release on bond and may have no choice but to self-deport to Honduras, a country she fled with her parents when she was 6 years old, and continue waiting for a resolution of her case.

“The only thing now that I want is my freedom back,” Palacios said. “I don’t want to be enclosed in a space where everything is controlled. I have no power to do anything. I feel hopeless all the time. And nothing is moving to help me.”

https://www.nola.com/news/education/ice-detains-lsu-nursing-grad-for-six-months/article_1e83af3a-4f80-5413-9f12-4ed3e6166575.html

[rampartd]

1. we sure need her at touro

i am certain any other country would be glad to get a nurse.

[viva la]

2. I thought educated and skilled people was exactly what we want from immigrants!

Why deport a NURSE??

We need nurses.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Trump hates healthcare for Americans.

Throwing out doctors and nurses.
Making healthcare too expensive.
Refusing vaccines to the people.

Death of Americans.

[viva la]

5. And defunding research--

so that our greatest scientists are leaving for Canada and Europe so that they can continue their research.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Trump's plan to destroy the US is very well planned and executed.

He did not do this on his own.

[Joinfortmill]

4. Horrible. Such shame upon our country.

When is enough, enough?