A federal judge ordered immigration officials to release a man who suffered “severe leg injuries” when they were arrested during an immigration raid in Carson in August, and had been in police custody at a hospital for 37 days without facing charges.
Bayron Rovidio Marin was arrested by Border Patrol agents and unidentified federal agents in plainclothes at the Carson Car Wash in Carson, California, on August 27, according to court documents reviewed by L.A. TACO. After sustaining “severe leg injuries” while being taken into custody, Marin was transported to the emergency room at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in neighboring Torrance.
At the hospital, Marin was registered under a pseudonym and was monitored by federal agents at all hours of the day and night, according to an October 4 court order.
For over a month, two to four uniformed guards—either ICE agents or private security guards contracted by ICE—watched over Marin while he slept, ate, used the bathroom, and received medical attention.
"ICE agents listened to every conversation between him and his doctors,” Cynthia Santiago, attorney for CLEAN Carwash Worker Center, and Nicolas Thompson-Lleras, attorney for The Coalition For Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), said in a joint statement to L.A. TACO. “They interrogated him while he was in pain and under the influence of medication."