In Texas, an immigrant teenage mother who attempted suicide at a private family detention center after being denied asylum is being deported. Nineteen-year-old Lilian Oliva Bardales had sought refuge with her four-year-old son in the U.S. to escape years of severe domestic abuse in her native Honduras and after multiple rapes which she said went unprosecuted by Honduran authorities. After her asylum bid was denied, she cut her wrist and left a suicide note saying she has been “treated worse than an animal.” Her attorney told McClatchy she was quietly taken from the detention center Monday after being kept for days under medical observation without being taken to a hospital or allowed to meet with a lawyer.
Immigrant Mother Who Attempted Suicide Being Deported to Honduras
HeadlineJun 09, 2015