US EditionImmigrant rights group calls for removing pregnant women from detention
Advocates report multiple pregnant detainees faced medical neglect and mistreatment in ICE custody, with the ACLU urging release of all pregnant, postpartum, or nursing women.
- Women taken into custody by U.S. immigration agents while pregnant reported inadequate care, being shackled and placed in solitary confinement, and receiving insufficient food and water.
- The ACLU letter details accounts from pregnant women who were detained in facilities in Louisiana and Georgia, including some who miscarried while in custody.
- One woman who was handcuffed during transport said she experienced dizziness, nausea, and vaginal bleeding during her detention.
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Pregnant Women in ICE Detention Suffer Miscarriages, Neglect
*Names have been changed to protect identities Shackled and chained while miscarrying, denied prenatal care, given inadequate food and water—these are the conditions that pregnant women in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention must endure. Despite its own directive advising against detaining pregnant individuals, ICE has increasingly held pregnant immigrants in facilities across the country, where abuse and medical neglect go unche…
Over a Dozen Women Report Medical Neglect, Shackling, and Miscarriages in ICE Custody, Advocacy Groups Claim
More than a dozen women have reported suffering medical neglect and mistreatment while pregnant in U.S. immigration custody, including being shackled, placed in solitary confinement, and denied prenatal care
Women detained by U.S. immigration agents while pregnant say they received inadequate attention in a letter published on Wednesday calling on the Trump administration to stop holding future mothers in federal detention centers. The letter to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Service is part of a broader campaign conducted in recent months by Democrats and immigrant rights groups to draw attention to what they say is the abuse of pregnant detainee…
Ana (fictional name) is twenty-two years old and is six months pregnant. She is detained in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) detention facility in Basile, Louisiana, despite the fact that the agency’s guidelines urge that pregnant women be prevented from being detained. In her first month in detention, she did not receive the prenatal vitamins recommended for that stage and, although she suffers nausea, vomiting and pain in …
ACLU urges removal of pregnant women from ICE facilities in Louisiana after claims of mistreatment
BATON ROUGE, La. (NEWS 15) — A prominent civil rights group is advocating for the removal of pregnant women from ICE detention centers in Louisiana. The ACLU has called for an investigation into what it describes as the "troubling" treatment…
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