On Monday, Democratic Rep. Lucy McBath visited Rodney Taylor, a 47-year-old Loganville man who uses two prosthetic legs, at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia.
The visit came after McBath highlighted Taylor’s case at a House Judiciary committee hearing, demanding that former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem respond to a letter she and 20 other members of Congress sent questioning why the man remained in immigration detention as he developed further health complications due to a lack of specific care tailored to his disabilities.
“I wanted to be able to assess how he was doing physically, morally, spiritually, just psychologically,” McBath said. “I wanted to be able to assess that for myself and have a one-on-one discussion with him.”
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