Injured Hard Rock Hotel worker held by immigration authorities after speaking to media, attorneys sa
Source: The Times-Picayune, NOLA.com
Injured Hard Rock Hotel worker held by immigration authorities after speaking to media, attorneys say
BY RAMON ANTONIO VARGAS and BRYN STOLE Staff writers PUBLISHED OCT 18, 2019 AT 12:59 PM UPDATED OCT 18, 2019 AT 3:30 PM 3 min to read
One of the workers injured in the deadly collapse Saturday of the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans has been detained for deportation by immigration authorities after he spoke about his experience enduring the disaster with a television station, his attorneys said Friday.
Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma, a native of Honduras, is one of five laborers who filed a lawsuit at Orleans Parish Civil District Court on Friday seeking damages over physical wounds they suffered from the main players behind the ill-fated hotel project, whom the plaintiffs accuse of causing the collapse by using inadequate materials and supports.
Ramirez's attorneys Jeremy Pichon, Eric Wright and Daryl Gray, said he requires surgery, and he had not been able to receive "medical care that he needs" at the immigration detention center where he is being held, near Oakdale, Louisiana, as of the last time they spoke with him.
The precise circumstances surrounding Ramirez's arrest weren't immediately clear. But it appears Ramirez was detained by Border Patrol and U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents in New Orleans East near Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, about two days after the building collapse.
A spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in New Orleans didn't immediately respond Friday afternoon to messages seeking comment. Christina Meister, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said the agency does not provide any information about arrests by its agents.
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