The family of the housekeeper who overstayed her visa and fainted when arrested by ICE agents is keeping vigil at Stanford Medical Center where she has been held since Monday, banned from visiting her and getting little information from doctors about her health.

Her father, Armando Rodriquez Garcia, took a bouquet of flowers up to the sixth floor Wednesday with a handwritten note to try to comfort her.

“Don’t worry, honey, we are with you,” he wrote in Spanish.

But with federal agents posted at her door, Stanford health care workers told him no gifts or flowers were allowed. They wouldn’t even allow the family priest or her lawyer in, they said. Aleyda “Yeny” Rodriquez, a 47-year-old mother of three with a chronic blood condition exacerbated by stress, was in federal custody.

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