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

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

Some hospitals are registering patients detained by federal immigration officers under pseudonyms and prohibiting staff from contacting family members.

‘I Can’t Tell You’: Families Seek Hospitalized ICE Detainees – NJ Urban News

Claudia Boyd-Barrett and Oona Zenda Illustration by Oona Zenda January 30, 2026 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 Romero, and agents were in the room, listening to the call. He…