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ACLU Says ICE Violates Policy Against Jailing Pregnant People and Nursing Moms

HeadlineDec 04, 2025

Immigration advocates and lawyers contend that despite ICE’s policy that agents shouldn’t detain, arrest or hold pregnant, postpartum and nursing mothers, pregnant people are increasingly rounded up, deported and detained. The ACLU has documented more than a dozen cases of pregnant women housed without proper medical care at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, and the ICE processing center in Basile, Louisiana. In one case, a woman was shackled while she miscarried. Another woman with a high-risk pregnancy was placed in solitary confinement.

Meanwhile, here in New York City, the news outlet The City is reporting ICE agents arrested a Chinese father named Fei and his 6-year-old son Yuanxin during an immigration check-in in Manhattan last week. The father was separated from his son and taken to an ICE jail in upstate New York. Advocates say “nobody knows” where Yuanxin is being held. According to the Deportation Data Project, the boy is part of a growing number of children arrested and detained by ICE. This year ICE arrested 151 children.

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