"For days after the East Palo Alto housekeeper with an expired visa was moved from Stanford Medical Center into ICE detention in Bakersfield, she could barely speak to her family trying to connect with her through FaceTime phone calls."
"She did not trust anyone, said Issy Tovar, Rodriguez's cousin. When they would say they're calling you, they're here to visit, she just didn't believe anybody."
"As ICE arrests increase under the Trump Administration's crackdown of illegal immigration, hospitals around the country are grappling with the same issues, including whether armed agents can be banned from patient treatment areas."
"They are common sense changes, said Michelle de Blank, the family lawyer who was denied access to Rodriguez while she was a patient. What happened was not okay for her health, legally, anything."
Aleyda Yeny Rodriguez, an East Palo Alto housekeeper with an expired visa, fainted while being arrested by ICE on her way to work and was moved from Stanford Medical Center into ICE detention in Bakersfield. She was initially in shock, mumbled during FaceTime calls, and refused visits from family. After a week in the detention center's medical unit and assistance from a fellow detainee, her health improved. She awaits a deportation hearing to determine voluntary deportation to Guadalajara with her Mexican-born 13-year-old daughter. Stanford hospital workers and activists are urging policy changes after family and a lawyer were barred from her hospital room during most of a five-day stay, while hospitals nationwide confront whether armed agents should be permitted in patient treatment areas as ICE arrests rise.
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