"The whole world knows her here. We call her la abuela," said Eloy detainee Arbella Rodriguez Marquez, a Phoenix woman with leukemia who has been in ICE detention since February 2025. She said she's in a different unit than Julia but has run into her as they've been waiting for medical care.
Rodriguez Marquez said she's met two other elderly Eloy detainees who arrived without obvious mental challenges but then devolved into serious symptoms of dementia.
https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_6100a603-9c17-4748-b846-28788d624209.html
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