A year and a half after going into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, José is still experiencing rectal bleeding.
An immigrant from Guatemala who lived in Los Angeles for more than two decades, José has been fighting to get medical attention for his condition the entire time he’s been locked up. After pressure from news media and attorneys, including two articles from Capital & Main, he received a colonoscopy last August and later surgery, but he said conditions at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego have meant that he is not recovering properly.
