The woman, a migrant from Honduras whose identity the agency withheld, was six months pregnant when she was arrested near Hidalgo, Tex.
of two detained migrant children, which led the CBP chief to commit to conducting health checks on all minors in the agency’s custody., which changed from a “presumption of release for all pregnant detainees” after an executive order from President Trump directed the agency “to enforce the immigration laws of the United States against all removable aliens.”The new policy, the agency says, is to determine whether to detain pregnant women on a “case-by-case” basis.
“This news is tragic, and it comes on the heels of two recent deaths of children in DHS custody at the border, government reports of deplorable conditions in ICE contract facilities, and a long history of problems with medical services in immigration detention," Omar Jadwat, director of the American Civil Liberty Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, told The Post.
From October 2017 through August 2018, ICE detained 1,655 pregnant women, according to the most recent data the agency made available. Over that same period, 18 women may have experienced a miscarriage just before or while in ICE custody. ICE policy states that its detention facilities provide onsite prenatal care and remote access to specialists for pregnant women who are in custody.
, ICE responds to the question, “Isn’t detaining pregnant women a human rights abuse?,” answering: “ICE exercises its civil detention authority consistent with the law, and all detainees receive necessary and appropriate health services, food, and care.”that a 45-year-old Mexican migrant died in early February after being apprehended near a port of entry in Roma, Tex. The man, whom authorities did not name, requested medical assistance twice in the two days after agents detained him.
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