US asks to limit arrests of pregnant migrants
- April 25, 2023
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A group of more than 100 healthcare professionals and human rights organizations on Tuesday asked US immigration authorities to restrict detention of pregnant migrants. In a letter to
A group of more than 100 healthcare professionals and human rights organizations on Tuesday asked US immigration authorities to restrict detention of pregnant migrants.
In a letter to the Acting Director Customs and Border Guard (CBP), Troy Miller, organizations demanded that he not be held further 12 hours both pregnant and lactating migrants and their families.
“CBP policies and practices are currently inadequate to protect the reproductive health of migrants in detention,” writes the group, which includes about 60 organizations, including the ACLU and the American Civil Liberties Union, Oxfam America.
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The document details a series of migrant complaints, most recently in March this year when Border Patrol detained a four-month-old pregnant woman for eight days in McAllen, Texas without access to “health care or basic needs” and then was deported to Guatemala without the opportunity to seek asylum in the United States.
In another case, in January, US authorities transferred a migrant woman who was in labor to a hospital in San Diego. There they expressed their intention to separate the woman from her other underage daughter, and after giving birth, return her back to the border service institutions.
It was the hospital workers who managed to dissuade them from holding these actions, the text says.
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The letter also highlights the importance of immigration authorities changing their respective rules for detaining pregnant women before the ban is lifted. Title 42sanitary regulations allowing hot deportations at the border.
Title 42 is scheduled to be put on hold May 11 and the Joe Biden government has since announced that it will expand the use of expedited deportation to deal with what they hope will be an increase in migrant arrivals at the border with Mexico.
At a congressional committee hearing last week, Miller noted that the number of illegal border crossings is expected to rise to 10 thousand per day.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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