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This page is part of a resource collection on Authoritarianism & Bigotry in the Second Trump Administration.
Resources
Physicians for Human Rights: Health Harms Experienced by Pregnant Women in U.S. Immigration Custody.
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January 21. George Chidi: Pregnant woman in medical distress deported from US, says attorney. Woman who’s eight months pregnant sent to Colombia by ICE, despite belated court order to keep her out of the air.
January 23. Shefali Luthra: A pregnant mother in ICE detention says she’s bleeding — and hasn’t seen a doctor in weeks.Cecil Elvir-Quinonez, who is still breastfeeding her youngest child, is awaiting deportation in a Louisiana ICE facility states away from her family and children.
January 30. Shefali Luthra: Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care. Health care providers said pregnant patients are having more complications linked to stress. But fear of immigration agents is keeping them from prenatal care.
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July 30. Senator Jon Ossoff: The Abuse of Pregnant Women and Children in U.S. Immigration Detention.
September 11. Women’s Refugee Commission: Keeping women and babies safe in immigration detention.
October 7. Shefali Luthra & Mel Leonor Barclay: ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk: Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.
October 10. Jessica Washington: The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention.
October 20. Shefali Luthra & Mel Leonor Barclay: ICE keeps detaining pregnant immigrants — against federal policy. But the number is impossible to measure since Congress let lapse a requirement that ICE report how many pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants are in custody.
October 22. The Associated Press: Immigrant rights group calls for removing pregnant women from detention.
October 22. Maya Yang: Pregnant women report medical neglect in ICE detention, rights groups say: Women report miscarriages, delayed care, being shackled and being held in solitary confinement, letter says.
October 25. Shefali Luthra & Mel Leonor Barclay: ICE Keeps Detaining Pregnant Immigrants — But We Don’t Know How Many.
October 27. The ACLU: Pregnant and Postpartum Women Face Neglect and Abuse in ICE Detention.
October 30. Anushay Hossain: Pregnant, Postpartum, and Detained: How ICE’s Practices Fail the Most Vulnerable.
December 2. Mel Leonor Barclay & Shefali Luthra: Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention. Nayra Guzmán was arrested 15 days after her daughter’s difficult birth. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE.
December 3. Rachel Uranga: Pregnant immigrants held for months in detention despite rules against it.