Justice for Ana Romero

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Ana Romero was an undocumented immigrant here in Kentucky and she was arrested in a raid I'm guessing, so she went to jail and she was supposed to be deported within days but they kept her in jail for about 8 months. And then when she spoke with her family she said that there were something wrong with the food she was given in jail so she refused to eat, anyways she was going to be deported to El Salvador in a week or so, and apparently she was excited and really looking forward to it, but a week later she was found dead, they say she killed herself, and they also say that she hang herself. But it doesn't make sense for many people because she was going to be deported in a week and she had family/sons waiting for her, also there are little evidence about it and the authorities closed the case, but we think that everything is too incongruous and we want them to reopen the case, so they can give us an ansewer to everything they left out

"Justice for Ana Romero Petition

The recent tragic death of Ana Romero while in the Franklin County, Kentucky jail raises many questions of morality, decency, and the humane treatment of persons awaiting deportation. Ana Romero (44 years old) was living and working in Shelbyville cleaning houses in order to support her 84 year-old mother and two grown sons in college in El Salvador.

In January of 2008, Ana was arrested at home and detained for possessing a false immigration document and for failure to obey a deportation order. Ana's arrest was one small part of the massive national campaign by ICE (immigration and Customs Enforcement) which has included huge raids, unnecessary and excessively harsh criminal prosecutions, sweeping violations of due process rights, and an unprecedented increase in deportations. The most infamous examples of this have been the roundly denounced large-scale raids in Pottsville, Iowa, New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Laurel, Mississippi. These operations have torn families apart, including many U.S. citizens, and has instilled pervasive fear in our communities owing to the terrorizing tactics used by the authorities and the lack of due process afforded the immigrants afterwards.

Whether or not you agree with the criminalization of immigrant workers and families who have entered the U.S. without documents, the consequences of the Ana Romero case should touch a nerve. During her nearly 8 month imprisonment in the county jail while awaiting deportation, Ana was distraught and suffered from medical ailments, refusing to eat the food which she told family members"...stinks and there is something wrong with it."

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PS: I didn't write this...I took the article from the website