Detainees sit on their bunks in a housing unit during a media tour at Northwest ICE Processing Center, one of 31 dedicated ICE facilities that house immigration detainees, in Tacoma, Washington [File: Lindsey Wasson/Reuters]

Seattle, Washington – It was likely one of Alfredo Espinoza Esparza’s coworkers who left an anonymous tip that there were undocumented workers at a restaurant in Spokane, Washington.

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials showed up at the restaurant soon after and detained Espinoza in a facility near Seattle, leaving his wife and children, who are US citizens, without a husband and father.

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In January, Espinoza, 41, had a heart attack. A few weeks later, the first coronavirus case appeared not too far from the detention

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