PALO ALTO — A 47-year-old woman from Guadalajara, Mexico, was taken to Stanford Hospital for treatment after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained her Monday morning in East Palo Alto, according to officials and family members.

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She remained at the hospital Monday night with agents stationed outside her room.

Speaking through a Spanish translator, the woman’s father, Armando Rodriguez Garcia, said his daughter, her husband and their child were heading to work and school when agents stopped them. The agents tried to detain the woman’s husband but he escaped. The woman, however, lost consciousness and agents took her to the hospital.

“When she woke up, she was here in the hospital,” Garcia said.

Garcia described the detainment as violent, noting that t

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