The family of a woman taken into custody by federal agents is worried about her after he described to them harsh conditions inside a federal detention facility.
Guadalupe Gutierrez, 41, is being held at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, her family told KTLA’s Kimberly Cheng.
“She sent her last text message to us, letting us know ‘they got me already, take care,'” said daughter Zulma Zapeta.
“The last call that we got from her was a very devastating and distraught thing to hear,” added daughter Gwyneth Zapeta. “She’s saying that she’s not being fed, that she’s sleeping on a concrete floor and that her and a couple of people have to huddle in order to keep warm.”
Zulma Zapeta added that medication is also being withheld.
Gutierrez came from Guatemala and has been in the U.S. for more than two decades.
She’s sought a path to citizenship in the past, her daughters say, but has been unable to do so, even without a criminal record.
She works as a seamstress at Peach Love in Vernon, and she was taken into custody on Friday. Her family said it took days to figure out where she’d been taken and to make contact with her.
They’re now working to get her legal representation.
The Department of Homeland Security did not return KTLA’s request for comment.
