‘I can’t tell you’: Attorneys, relatives struggle to find hospitalized ICE detainees

By: Claudia Boyd-Barrett

Outlets: Rhode Island Current

Published: February 1, 2026

Words: 2,056

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 2 days ago

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This article first appeared on KFF Health News and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Lydia Romero strained to hear her husband’s feeble voice through the phone.

A week earlier, immigration agents had grabbed Julio César Peña from his front yard in Glendale, California. Now, he was in a hospital after suffering a ministroke. He was shackled to the bed by his hand and foot, he told …

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