Detainee dies of cancer and no one in the Federal Government holding him in detention cares. New York Times.
"He was 17 when he came to New York from Hong Kong in 1992 ..., 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 ... 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 .... his spine fractured and his body riddled with cancer that had gone undiagnosed and untreated for months."
