An immigration rights activist is seen outside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington July 17, 2020. The agency announced July 9, 2021, that it will no longer detain most pregnant, nursing and postpartum women for deportation. (CNS photo/Leah Millis, Reuters)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency involved in deportations and other immigration-related detention proceedings, announced July 9 it would not detain, arrest or take into custody pregnant or nursing migrants for violating immigration laws except in exceptional circumstances.
This includes women who have given birth within a year, the agency said, adding it was doing so in recognition of the time needed for infant development and parental bonding.
ICE announces reversal of policy of detaining pregnant, nursing migrants
A child embraces a woman in Los Angeles as people hold signs to protest against former President Donald Trump’s executive order to detain children crossing the southern border and separating families June 7, 2018. U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement announced July 9 it would not detain or arrest pregnant or nursing migrants except in extraordinary cases. (CNS photo/Patrick T. Fallon, Reuters)
By Rhina Guidos • Catholic News Service • Posted July 12, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency involved in deportations and other immigration-related detention proceedings, announced July 9 it would not detain, arrest or take into custody pregnant or nursing migrants for violating immigration laws except in exceptional circumstances.
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People from Cameroon, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo held in immigration detention centers because they put their trust in the U.S. as a place of safety only to be denied due process and ordered deported. Asylum seekers from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and dozens of other countries who were turned back at the U.S. border only now being admitted. Refugees who have been waiting for years overseas to be reunited with their families already resettled in the U.S. The Dreamers and essential workers who long to be fully recognized as the members of our communities that they already are. These are but some of the immigration challenges and opportunities faced by immigrants and Presbyterian allies.
Democrats formally introduced one of the most ambitious plans to date to address legal and illegal immigration in the U.S., while at the same time signaling limits for those currently attempting to enter without documentation at the southern border.