U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in three unmarked SUVs surrounded 56-year-old Rafael Lopez Gomez in a Las Vegas neighborhood and arrested him at what appeared to be gunpoint last month. Afterwards, his family struggled to locate him for days — calling ICE repeatedly without answer.
About a week later, his daughter found him in a hospital room barely able to breathe.
“I got to see my dad handcuffed to the hospital bed. His feet were swollen. He was in tears, and could barely speak,” his daughter, Diana Lopez, said in an interview with The Nevada Independent.…