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Immigration Officials Push Health-Care Providers to ‘Clear’ Pregnant Migrants for Detention
"It is becoming too common that doctors feel like they have to risk their position or their job in order to do the right thing."
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Trump Administration Separates Some Migrant Mothers From Their Newborns Before Returning Them to Detention
“I don’t know if they lose their babies for good,” one doctor said. “But I do know the process is torturous for them.”
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Immigrant Activists Fight Their Deportations With Free Speech Lawsuits
Immigrant leaders nationwide are turning to the federal courts to argue ICE violated the First Amendment when it targeted them for deportation based on their activism.
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OB-GYN Says U.S. Marshals Service Is Shackling Detained Pregnant Migrants
The doctor told Rewire.News that as recently as March, a woman in USMS custody experienced birth complications exacerbated by a delay in care “the patient asked for over and over again."
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Meet the Federal Agency Helping to Criminalize Pregnant Migrants
Pregnant asylum seekers in Texas are held in federal custody and must sometimes endure life-threatening circumstances, according to one advocate, because of the way the United States has chosen to criminalize those seeking asylum.
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Biden Lied About the Hyde Amendment. Or He Is Very Confused.
Biden's campaign confirmed to NBC News that the candidate supports the Hyde Amendment, an anti-choice restriction banning federal funding for abortion care.
