An interfaith circle of Phoenix clergy gathered outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office on Thursday, calling on the agency to grant humanitarian parole to seven people in custody who, they say, are suffering from serious and untreated medical conditions. Faith leaders said they tried to deliver a letter outlining the cases, but no one from the facility would accept it.
As reported by ABC15, the letter names detainees including Arbella “Yari” Rodríguez Márquez, a Phoenix resident with leukemia whose family says she has been in custody for about 14 months without treatment, 72-year-old grandmother Maria Cristina Tapia Cornejo, who is now showing signs of dementia, and Ruslan Makhmudov, who has Marfan syndrome and reportedly suffered a heart attack and underwent surgery for an aortic aneurysm while detained. The clergy also listed Marivel Otilia Lopez-Garcia, Isabel Ramirez Ramos, Lazaro Campos Izquierdo and Ana Silvia Granados Sanchez, urging officials to release them so they can receive medical care from their families and doctors.
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