ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – An immigration attorney representing one of 41 men in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement custody — who were held temporarily at the Anchorage Correctional Complex in June — said his client was hospitalized for tuberculosis upon returning from Alaska to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington.
“He does not know where he got tuberculosis or how,” said Sean Quirk, an immigration attorney who was appointed by the 9th Circuit Court of appeals last year to provide pro bono representation for an immigrant in the process of being granted legal status to remain in the United States.
“All he knows is that he was told that there was some sort of exposure, and then they did give them pills, and he got very sick.”…