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ICE Has Detained a 72-Year-Old Grandfather With Alzheimers for Nine Months
Noé de la Cruz, a grandfather of three, has been in immigrant detention since June 2018and his family worries that his Alzheimers is going untreated.
Scott Bixby
03.18.19 4:43 AM ET
For nearly nine months, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held a 72-year-old grandfather with Alzheimers disease in a Texas immigrant detention center. As Noé de la Cruzs attorneys fight to win asylum status, his only daughter worries that he is forgetting his own grandchildrenand is in danger of losing his life if he is deported.
When a person gets sick with this kind of disease, its a very different situation for that person, and their family, because they are not who they were anymoretheyre more like a child, Sandra de la Cruz, Noés daughter, told The Daily Beast. If her father is deported to his native Mexico, Sandra said, she fears his condition may deteriorate even more quickly.
Hes going to get lost, and we dont have family over there who can take care of him, Sandra said. Speaking through tears, Sandra recounted instances where her father called three, five, ten times a day from the Port Isabel detention facility near Los Fresnos, Texas, asking the same questions over and over.
He also says that hes getting into fights, but when we go to see him, he doesnt have bruises, Sandra said. We think that the fights are happening in his mind.
Although his family has petitioned to have de la Cruz released into their care while his removal is adjudicated, ICE has refused, according to Tatiana Obando, de la Cruzs attorney.
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ICE Has Detained a 72-Year-Old Grandfather With Alzheimer's for Nine Months (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2019
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marble falls
(57,099 posts)1. Our govenment has no soul, no decency, no moral center.
Bettie
(16,110 posts)2. Of course they have
because ICE is apparently populated entirely by inhuman monsters these days.
I was just following orders doesn't really cut it anymore.
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)4. Might partially explain a reason for the denial of visas...
US denying visas to International Criminal Court staff
By Jennifer Hansler, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/15/politics/pompeo-icc-visa-restrictions/index.html
Bettie
(16,110 posts)6. Yeah, that would partially explain that
they don't want anyone seeing what they are really up to.
lostnfound
(16,180 posts)3. Are there any humans left in ICE? Final straw, maybe SHOULD be abolished. Nt
progressoid
(49,991 posts)5. Obviously a drug mule.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)7. Jesus Christ, what can a 72 yr old man with
Alzheimers do to harm anyone ??!!!!???