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ICE Has Detained a 72-Year-Old Grandfather With Alzheimer’s for Nine Months

PRISON OF THE MIND

Noé de la Cruz, a grandfather of three, has been in immigrant detention since June 2018—and his family worries that his Alzheimer’s is going untreated.

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