Covid-19 cases in Arizona are rising rapidly after the state opened up last month. The Eloy Detention Center, where Mendoza is housed, is in the midst of its own dramatic surge. Over the past weekend, active Covid-19 cases among Eloy detainees jumped from 21 to 122. At least 60 employees at the facility have tested positive for the virus, according to Ryan Gustin, a spokesperson for CoreCivic, and one staff member has died from suspected complications from Covid-19.
Mendoza is one of 2,016 detainees nationwide in Ice custody who have tested positive for Covid-19.

The Arizona detention center where Marisol Mendoza is housed is witnessing a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases
Marisol Mendoza has Covid-19. She’s short of breath, coughs and feels pain in her back and chest. She doesn’t have the energy to stand up or eat much. She’s scared she will die, alone, in an isolation cell of the immigration detention center where she’s been held for the past four years.
“Sometimes I think that Ice wants to release me when I’m dead, because they won’t do it any other way,” the 47-year-old Mexican national told the Guardian over the phone on Monday.
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