Child Care Worker Detained by ICE Leaves a Community Reeling

Child Care Worker Detained by ICE Leaves a Community Reeling

This article was originally published in The 19th. This story was originally reported by Chabeli Carrazana of The 19th.  Two years ago, Nicolle Orozco Forero walked into an in-home day care in Seattle, Washington, looking for a job. She was barely 22, a whole five feet tall — if that. But she was calm, focused. Her presence struck the owner, Stephanie Wishon, because it’s not easy to find qualified staff who can work with children with disabilit…

Detained by ICE, a Phoenix woman with leukemia faces death without medical care

Arbella Rodríguez Márquez, known as “Yari” to her friends and family, is a legal permanent resident in Phoenix, who lives with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Rodríguez Márquez, 39, was detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Feb. 10. Now she is being held at the Eloy Detention Center, the largest ICE prison in the state, where she has been for the last five months. There, she is not receiving proper medical care for her leuk…