Editor's note: Este artículo está traducido al español.
Diana Lopez stood by the door of her father’s room at Henderson Hospital. Before immigration enforcement agents detained him at gunpoint days earlier, she would have described him as a healthy person.
That’s not how she last saw him.
Rafael Lopez Gomez, 56, was handcuffed to the hospital bed with swollen feet, Lopez said. But Lopez wasn’t supposed to see that; one of the police officers watching her father confirmed with his sergeant that Lopez wasn’t allowed in her father’s hospital room.
As Lopez walked away, a doctor followed. The doctor asked how the two were related and then shared Lopez Gomez’s condition: He had passed out with chest pain and also was dealing with an upper respiratory infection, fever, high blood pressure an