A U.S. Border Patrol truck enters the Port Isabel Detention Center, which holds U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees, in Los Fresnos, Tex. “Pregnant migrant women should not be locked up. In this case, the ICE spokesman said, the woman was scheduled for a “humanitarian release" from Port Isabel Detention Center, but she went into labor while being processed. Over that same period, 18 women may have experienced a miscarriage just before or while in ICE custody. In January, NBC News published an investigation of government documents that found at least 22 migrants died in ICE detention centers in the past two years.

Source: Washington Post February 26, 2019 02:11 UTC