Arbella “Yari” Rodríguez Márquez, a legal permanent resident who suffers from leukemia is not receiving proper medical care in ICE detention.
As Arizona sees a rise in immigration raids, state Sen. Analise Ortiz reminds the community to retain their hold on humanity.
An Arizona father who has lived in the US for 25 years appears to have been racially profiled by ICE and sent to the Florence Detention Center while on his way to work. His daughter, Denise Gutierrez, is now fighting to bring him home.
Our reporter Sahara Sajjadi was on the ground in Phoenix as activists rallied for the second week against ICE arrests outside an immigration court.
Arizona Democratic Rep. Yassamin Ansari made an unannounced visit to the center, where she spoke with 15 women amid allegations of racism, abuse, and inadequate medical care.
The arrests appear to be part of a nationwide trend this week in which individuals have shown up for their hearings only to have their cases dismissed by judges at the request of government prosecutors, and for ICE agents to then arrest them on courthouse grounds.
Nineteen-year-old Jose Hermosillo, a resident of New Mexico, was detained for ten days at the Florence Correctional Center, a privately operated Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Arizona after immigration officials questioned his claim of US citizenship.
