Family Detained by ICE While Seeking Medical Care for Their 7-Year-Old Daughter's Nosebleed By Nicholas Rice 11

Two parents and their 7-year-old daughter were detained by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents after medical help was sought for the young child.

Diana Crespo suffered a long-lasting nosebleed on Jan. 15, and when she and her parents — mom, Darianny Liseth Gonzalez De Crespo, and dad, Yohendry De Jesus Crespo — visited urgent care at Portland Adventist Health in Oregon the next morning, they were detained by immigration officers in the facility’s parking lot, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) and Noticias Noroeste reported.

The second-grader and her parents are being held at ICE’s South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, family friends told OPB. It is the same location where Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy who went viral after he was detained by ICE agents in Minnesota, is being held, according to CNN.

A GoFundMe page set up by Darianny’s friend, Stephanie Melendez, claims, “ICE agents forced them out of the car, and they were unable to get a doctor to see their daughter. They are being held without money and urgently need help to cover lawyers, food and everything else while they are detained.”

“Darianny and Yohendry are a couple full of dreams and goals, honest and hardworking people who came to this country to work and give their daughter Diana a good future,” Melendez continued.

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Ana, a friend of the Crespo family, told OPB and The Chronicle that Yohendry, 40, Darianny, 34, and Diana came to the United States from Venezuela just over a year ago.

Darianny’s sister added to OPB that the mother, father and daughter moved due to concerns about the government in Venezuela. “Most of us who left, who emigrated, did so because of that fear,” she said.

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Ana told OPB and The Chronicle that the Crespo family originally moved to Utah but relocated to live with her family in October, due to increased immigration enforcement in the state. They, alongside her own family, entered the U.S. in California following an appointment with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, she said.

The friend added to the outlet that the family has a pending asylum application, and Yohendry and Darianny received permits to work legally in the U.S. Ana also told OPB that the couple is still in the process of obtaining a lawyer after their detainment.

Portland Adventist Health’s communications manager, CJ Anderson, told OPB in a statement that the facility was unaware of the detainment surrounding the Crespo family.

“No law enforcement agency contacted us, and we did not coordinate with any agency,” he said. “Adventist Health Portland is here for our community, open, available and ready to provide care when it’s needed most. Patient care remains our priority, regardless of circumstance.”

Ana told OPB that Diana remained sick after her detainment, and the family friend claimed the child did not see a doctor at ICE’s South Texas Family Residential Center for days. Diana is now better, however, she added.

The detainment of Yohendry, Darianny and Diana marks one of the first of an entire family in Oregon, Portland Immigrants Rights Coalition coordinator Alyssa Walker Keller told OPB. “It’s horrific this happened, and [it’s] a new, unsettling dynamic to see a family unit detained like this in Oregon,” she said.

Both ICE and Portland Adventist Health did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Saturday, Jan. 24.