When cancer patient Maricela heard the news that ICE brought a person to Highland Hospital, Oakland’s largest public hospital, to treat injuries after a forceful arrest in Emeryville, she worried about what the agents’ presence at the hospital meant for her.
“I was terrified,” said Maricela in Spanish, who days later canceled an appointment at the hospital related to a jaw surgery she underwent last year. “They’re so close to you. It’s one thing to be told they’re in some area [in the city], but quite another to almost run into them in the hospital.”…