Pregnant Women Say They Miscarried In Immigration Detention And Didn't Get The Care They Needed
Source: BuzzFeed
In May, Attorney General Jeff Sessions publicly introduced the “zero tolerance” immigration policy that has led to children being separated from their parents at the border, sparked national outrage, and triggered an executive order from President Trump. While the national focus has been on family separations, another Department of Homeland Security policy quietly introduced by the Trump administration five months earlier has devastated women fleeing violence in their home countries: the detention of pregnant women not yet in their third trimester.
Before that directive, which the Trump administration implemented in December before announcing it in March, ICE was under an Obama administration–era directive not to detain pregnant women except in extreme circumstances or in relatively rare cases of expedited deportation.
The new ICE directive states that women are not to be held into their third trimester and that ICE is responsible for “ensuring pregnant detainees receive appropriate medical care including effectuating transfers to facilities that are able to provide appropriate medical treatment.”
But BuzzFeed News has found evidence that that directive is not being carried out. Instead, women in immigration detention are often denied adequate medical care, even when in dire need of it, are shackled around the stomach while being transported between facilities, and have been physically and psychologically mistreated.
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Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor/pregnant-migrant-women-miscarriage-cpb-ice-detention-trump
The article starts with harrowing paragraphs about a woman from El Salvador, four months pregnant, who was seeking asylum, was denied medical care, and who just lay there in a detention cell bleeding for eight days, crying as she lost her baby. She was afraid to give BuzzFeed her name when she was interviewed, fearful of repercussions against herself in detention, and against her family back in El Salvador. A week after she was interviewed, she gave up on applying for asylum and accepted being deported.
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wrong to expect their intervention . They have to save their resources for more European phenotypes, you know that because it's a well known fact that that vast numbers of people from El Salvador, Mexico, HELL. MOST of central & south America has SUBSTANTIAL amounts of African admixture. 
They didn't give a fuqq about an unborn little boy, who parents are salvadoreno, (Missing the tilde needed to spell it correctly, but you get the gist, I''m sure). To "PEOPLE", like these, the only good immigrant from a central or south American country is a DEAD immigrant!
