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Biden Will End Detention for Most Pregnant and Postpartum Undocumented Immigrants
nytimes.com ^ | July 9, 2021 | Eileen Sullivan

Posted on 07/09/2021 11:38:04 AM PDT by lowbridge

The Biden administration will ease restrictions placed on undocumented people who are pregnant, postpartum or nursing, the latest change in its broader efforts to soften immigration detention policies put in place by former President Donald J. Trump.

Under the new policy, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers generally will not detain or arrest people who are pregnant or nursing, or who had a baby within the previous year, according to a draft of the plan shared with The New York Times and a person familiar with the policy. The language in the policy will be gender neutral, acknowledging that transgender men can give birth — another departure from past directives.

The number of pregnant immigrants in detention increased sharply under Mr. Trump, who reversed a policy put in place in 2016 by President Barack Obama that called for detaining them only under extraordinary circumstances.

Since 2016, ICE has arrested undocumented pregnant immigrants more than 4,000 times, according to internal government data shared with The Times. The number in custody has fallen more recently, partly because of measures to reduce the number of people in congregate settings who are at greater risk of contracting Covid-19. There are currently fewer than 20 such immigrants in custody, staying for an average of three days.

Immigration advocates welcomed President Biden’s new policy, which they said went even further than the 2016 version that was issued when he was vice president. But like Mr. Biden’s other immigration policies to date — all of which have been made through executive orders or directives and not codified in law — protections for undocumented pregnant and postpartum immigrants could disappear under a future administration, just as Mr. Trump rewrote Mr. Obama’s policy.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; biden; illegalimmigration; immigration; nomoreanchorbabies
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1 posted on 07/09/2021 11:38:04 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Guys will be allowed to self-identify as 8 months pregnant


2 posted on 07/09/2021 11:41:28 AM PDT by Bulwinkle (Bulwinkke, a.k.a. Daffy Duck )
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To: lowbridge

Why even have a boarder?


3 posted on 07/09/2021 11:44:07 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: lowbridge

Meanwhile Cornyn, Grahamnesty, Tillis, Rubio, Hoeven and the rest of the Bush League Republicans keep trying to amnesty the Democrats new permanent majority.


4 posted on 07/09/2021 11:44:52 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: JoSixChip

We’re full up on boarders because we have no borders.


5 posted on 07/09/2021 11:45:24 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: lowbridge

Here comes non stop pregnant, fatherless illegal aliens pouring over the border. If this clown isn’t stopped we will see the end of America.


6 posted on 07/09/2021 11:47:14 AM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: JoSixChip

Why have a “president”


7 posted on 07/09/2021 11:47:27 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: JoSixChip

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8 posted on 07/09/2021 11:47:48 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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9 posted on 07/09/2021 11:50:45 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: JoSixChip

We dont have one


10 posted on 07/09/2021 11:50:54 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: lowbridge

Send

Them

Back


11 posted on 07/09/2021 11:52:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: lowbridge

But keep hundreds in solitary because they protested his rule.


12 posted on 07/09/2021 12:01:45 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: lowbridge

Note how the NY Times words it: “acknowledging that transgender men can give birth”


13 posted on 07/09/2021 12:01:49 PM PDT by omega4412
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To: lowbridge

Migrant citizens to be are preferred over existing citizens.


14 posted on 07/09/2021 12:04:55 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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wonder if this group of invaders is being tested and fauxcinated for the kung flu...


15 posted on 07/09/2021 12:07:15 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: lowbridge
Orangeman mean. Xiden nice. I, on the other hand, would handle the problem at the point of invasion. If I write what that is, I'll lose my freeping privileges.
16 posted on 07/09/2021 12:24:23 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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What's the difference between a man whose head has been battered with a sledge hammer into pulp and Joe Biden?

None. We are at the mercy of the entire world "ruled" by a brain dead puppet. Every hostile evil-doer with bad intentions can have at us with complete freedom.

17 posted on 07/09/2021 12:36:27 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: lowbridge

A large share of those women are doing one or more of those items for continuous YEARS.

Pregnant & nursing at same time is common.


18 posted on 07/09/2021 2:18:41 PM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: lowbridge

Free all the illegals with F’Trophy’s in their wombs!!!

La-la-la-la-la- America!!!

Let’s raise the bastards in La Estados Unidos por gratis!!!

Viva Mexico!


19 posted on 07/09/2021 2:26:45 PM PDT by pacificus
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well yeah. Gotta have those grappling hook babies to get the rest of la familia (I use that term purposely) across the border and on welfare. There’s a video of hundreds of pregnant “refugees” being bused to locations unknown in the dead of night.


20 posted on 07/09/2021 2:44:08 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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