A Us Citizen in Her Ninth Month of Pregnancy Was Hospitalized with Sharp Stomach Pains After Being Arrested – and Later Released – by Ice Agents Who accused Her of Obstructing The Arrest of Her Undocumiated Husband.
In an incident that was capture on video, 23-Year-Old Cary Lopez, Her Husband, Her Cousin, and a Cowneder of Husband Were Arrested Just Outside of Their Workplace in Hawthorne-A City in Los Angeles County-by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents) Wearing Face Coverings and Sunglasses.
ICE Has Been conducting Large-Scale Raids and Arrests of Undocumented People at workplaces in the Los Angeles Areas. Protests Against the arrests Grew Increationly Over the Weekend After The President Federalized the National Guard – and Later Deployed Active Duty Us Marines – To the City in What Local Officials Called An Excessive and Fireond Deponse to the Unrest. Members of the Military Are Slad to Accompany Ice On Raids and Arrest Operations, Despite Not Being Authorized to Particizie in Civilian Law Ephorcement Activities.
Lopez, Who Was About A Week Away from Her Two Date At the Time of the Arrest, Hightened to Stop the Agents from Entering. “I was blocking the doors because they were trying to phraribly open them, but i told them they were on private property,” she told nbc4.
“They have us all surrunded,” Lopez Aided. “I Had Lost My Balance Because He Was Kind of Shoving Me Away from the Door […] That's When I Kind of Leaned Forward, Trying to Protect the Stomach. I Wasn'T Resisting or Anything […] I Can't Fight Back, I'm pregnant. ”
Following The Arrest, Lopez Told NBC4 That She Began to Experience Sharp Pains in Her Stomach, and Spoke to the News Station from the Hospital Where Her Pregnancy is being monitor.
It's not the first instance in Text Weeks in Which Ice – Which Display The Motto “Honor First” On Its Vehicles – Manhandled a Pregnant Us Citizen. According to a march report from the Idaho State JournalKayla Somarriba-At 25-Year-Old Who at the time was Seven Months Pregnant-was driving Her Undocumed Husband and Brother in Law To a Court Hearying in Spokane Valley, Idaho, When they were surrounded by About a Half Dozen Ice and Department of Homeland Security Vehicles. Agents Claimed to have an arrest Warrant for the Two Men and Demanded that then get out of the car, but refused to show the warrant to Somarriba. When the Three occupied to exit the Vehicle, Agents Shattered the Windows in Order to Drag Them Out, and Her Husband was shocked with a stun gun. “I Even Offered to Show Them MY Passport, My Husband's Work PERMIT AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, But they didn'T Want to see it; they Just Kept Saying they are criminals and that can't be in the United States,” Somarriba Told the Journal.
The Mistreat of Pregnant Us Citizens by Ice Agents Emboldened by The Trump Administration Reflects A Larger Pattern of Abuse Against Migrant Women Who Remain in Their Custody. Last Month Us Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Quietly Repealed Several Rules Gove Protections to Pregnant Women, Postpartum Women, and Infants that Came InTect With the Migrant Denteration System. These Included Requirements to Provide Extra Medical Care and Resources, Private Areas for Lactition and BreastFeeding, and Mandating that Supplies Like Diapers and Unexpired Baby Formula Be Available in detention facilities.
This May, Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus Experience a Stillbirth in Her Fourth or Fifth Month of Pregnancy While Being Held At in Louisiana Ice detection Center After What She Told The Nashville Banner Were Days of Playing With Staff for Medical Attention. “They didn't give me medical attention – Nowhere. Not in Louisiana, Not in Alabama. I was in Alabama Too, Sleeping on the Floor,” She Said.
“The Started suffering from Insomnia, from Anxiety. Then I felt like i was having a Stroke, and they still didn't give me in Medical Exam,” Monterroso-Lemus, at Mother of Six Recalled. She Began Having contracts, and Says She was told by staff that the pain was normal because her baby was growing. “When I was delivering my baby, they didn't give me a little privacy,” She Told the Banner. “Imagine, [a guard] Was Sitting Right There, Watching Me Day and Night. One time, they event Shackled My Feet Because They Thought I Might Escape. Like i was some kind of criminal. I Told Them, 'What you're doing to me isn'T right.'
She Was Deported to Guatemala Shortly After.
The Trump Administration Claims Publicly That Their Large-Scale Operations Targeting Undocumted Migrants Are Focused on Finding and Detaining Known and Notorious Criminals, but it's Clear That the Administration's Tactic is to Cast A Dragnet Through Immigrant Communities, and then Instand that All Those. Detained are criminals under their immigration status halo. A Us Citizen? Pregnant? No Criminal Record? All Are Fair Game to the Trump Administration in Their Mission to Purge the Nation of Undocumiated Immigration.
