Trump’s Executive Order Provides for Detention of More Pregnant Immigrants

Under the Obama administration, it was the policy of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents not to detain pregnant immigrants except under extraordinary circumstances. The Trump administration’s executive order ordering a crackdown on undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., however, has resulted in the reversal of that policy. A new internal ICE memo curtails the automatic release of pregnant immigrants picked up by ICE, although Trump’s executive order did not specifically address the detention of pregnant immigrants. That executive order simply directed ICE to target anyone present in the U.S. without a legal immigration status. According to ICE’s website, pregnant immigrants still will be eligible for release, but only on a case-by-case basis. As a general rule, pregnant immigrants will remain in detention if their “detention is necessary to effectuate removal, as well as those deemed a flight risk or a danger to the community.”…

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