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At the time, Amalia was a healthy little girl with no known problems. Dilley’s water smelled strange, so his parents, Kheilin Valero Marcano and Stiven Arrieta Prieto, bought him bottled water at the center’s police station, even though they had no income in detention. (The article noted that nonprofits that work on immigrant rights, such as Human Rights First and RAICIES, have found that families detained at Dilley say the water there is “impure, foul-smelling and causes stomach upset.”)
Marcano also said a child found a bug in his food in the facility’s cafeteria, causing the other children to not want to eat. Soon after, children at the facility began getting sick, including Amalia. In January, Amalia developed a high fever and at the facility’s clinic, Amalia was given ibuprofen and her parents were informed that the fever was “good, because that means she is fighting a virus.”
But after two weeks, the fever persisted and Amalia began to vomit and have diarrhea. Returning to the Dilley Medical Clinic didn’t help, as Marcano recounted. The New Yorker she waited in line eight times without her concerns being addressed. Marcano at one point gave Amalia a cold bath to try to lower her temperature, only for his daughter to pass out. She went to the clinic and screamed, “Are you going to watch my baby die in my arms?
