Posted on 07/10/2021 8:36:57 AM PDT by bgill
U.S. immigration authorities will no longer routinely jail migrants facing deportation if they are pregnant or recently gave birth, reversing a Trump-era immigration policy.
The new directive, announced Friday, does not bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement from initiating proceedings to deport women who are pregnant, nursing or have given birth within the past year. But they generally would no longer be detained pending the outcome of their cases except under "exceptional circumstances," the agency said.
The practice of detaining pregnant migrants has been condemned as a threat to maternal and fetal health by immigrant and women's advocacy groups critical of medical care at detention centers.
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Migrants like hell. Illegals.
Knock em up, head em out, Rawhide!
When they can’t get free Heath care anymore for not being in custody they will somehow blame Trump.
Indeed. Never use the Left’s terminology.
They are illegal aliens. The only thing they should be given is a free trip from where they came from.
May have well. They reversed all his other policies. Destroy destruct..
So will the United States and all the States themselves stop arresting and jailing women accused of a crime because they’re pregnant?
Funny how being a foreign national qualifies you for complete immunity from any law.
Gosh, when will “Judge” Roberts invoke the Equal Protection clause?
The colonists flourish and breed the spawn illegals.
Trump jailed pregnant female migrants………..
They should be held until they are about to give birth, then dropped off at a midwife’s quarters on the Mexican side of the border.
I’m getting so tired of this irrelevant $hit I just don’t care anymore.
Basically the aim of this policy is to encourage even more illegal alien babies on US soil.
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