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Posted on 02/07/2026 4:05:28 PM PST by TheDon
LOS ANGELES - Immigration advocates were worried about an 8-month pregnant immigrant who was detained by ICE. They say she was not found in the ICE system. Turns out her husband got a call late Friday from her claiming she was pressured to sign deportation papers and is on her way back to Nicaragua.
What we know: The pregnant immigrant that immigration advocates and attorneys have been trying to find has been identified as 27-year-old Leonela Liliana Gomez Hernandez. A day earlier, FOX 11 followed them as they tried to search for her at detention centers.
Gomez-Hernandez was picked up by ICE agents near the corner of Vernon and Central avenues in Los Angeles. We are told she had just finished a visit to a medical center, to check on the baby's welfare and was outside waiting for an Uber when ICE agents detained her.
Her husband says he got a call Friday from her saying she was on her way to Nicaragua. She claimed she was pressured to sign a deportation order after agents supposedly made it clear they could not accommodate her advanced pregnancy. Her phone is out of battery, so she had to borrow another immigrant's cell phone to let him know.
Gomez-Hernandez has been here, according to her husband, for three years, and came to the US seeking asylum. She was supposed to be in court in November, but didn't go because she feared being deported, right on the spot, so far along during her pregnancy.
FOX 11 reached out to DHS to ask how detainees who sign deportation orders are being accounted for on their records. We have yet to hear back.
Dig deeper: It's the second time in recent weeks we have been told by detainees' families that they were pressured to sign deportation orders right after they were picked up.
The wife of a food vendor detained at a North Hills church parking lot last week claims he was told by agents that they could get him medical help for his bronchitis if he signed a paper. He allegedly signed papers to be deported.
Immigration advocates helping that family also say they could not find him anywhere in the DHS system and had no idea where he was until he called them from Mexico.
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I wonder if DHS sweetens the self deportation option with a little spending money? 😉
We have laws.
Yes, most excellent work. Get her the youknowwhat out of the country before she dominoes here onUS soil.
Invoice her for the plane flight back home too.
“We have laws.”
I’ve wanted our immigration laws aggressively enforced for over four decades. Nice to see it happening finally.
Thank you President Trump and team!
More ICE please!
I voted for this.
Someone said it yesterday here but I’ll repeat..
The news media sure is good at finding inconvenienced illegal aliens.
A twofer.
Yeah, missing a court date deliberately is a very bad idea ...
Am I supposed to feel bad that this parasite didn’t spit out an anchor baby? Good riddance and the husband can go join them.
Im convinced if the commie media were not obsessed about every damn illegal being deported NO ONE would care..these commie media buffoons should just close their eyes and pretend that Obama was doing it since back then they could have cared less
Yeah one less illegal alien kid that WE the taxpayer have to pay for..but the Dems now lost two voters
THE PREVENTION OF ANOTHER “ANCHOR BABY”—_WORKS FOR ME
That was close. That baby could have been an automatic American citizen if she gave birth on this side of the border
Hear more about illegals that we hear about Ashley Babbit
No breaking the pinata on American soil. They’re not even supposed to be flying at 8 months.
I’m sure she is crushed that she can’t have her anchor baby. Probably the real reason she skipper her hearing in November. She will soon learn if her husband really loves her and their new baby. There’s a pretty good chance he says hasta la vista, baby.
They don’t name the husband, so it’s quite possible he’s a criminal too...
“The news media sure is good at finding inconvenienced illegal aliens.”
They always manage to find the smallest sob story. Every time. You have to wonder if any of their sob stories are real.
The Nicaraguan government guarantees universal free health care for its citizens.
I wonder if some idiot judge will say she needs to be returned to this country so she can have her baby here.
If the baby’s father is an American citizen, the baby will still be an American citizen.
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