{"id":21198,"date":"2019-03-08T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=21198"},"modified":"2019-03-08T08:36:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:36:10","slug":"pregnancy-is-no-get-out-of-jail-free-card-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/03\/08\/pregnancy-is-no-get-out-of-jail-free-card-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnancy Is No \u201cGet-Out-of-Jail-Free\u201d Card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In January 2017, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ended its practice of releasing all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/faqs-identification-and-monitoring-pregnant-detainees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">pregnant immigration violators<\/a> who were not subject to mandatory detention or extraordinary circumstances warranting detention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That action was taken in order to better align ICE detention policies with President Trump\u2019s January 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/executive-order-enhancing-public-safety-interior-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Executive Order<\/a>, \u201cEnhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States.\u201d And it provoked outrage in all of the usual quarters: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caircoalition.org\/2018\/04\/04\/cair-coalition-condemns-ices-change-in-policy-to-detain-pregnant-immigrant-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Capital Area Immigrant\u2019s Rights Coalition<\/a> opined, \u201cIf our government values life, this is a poor way of showing it.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/immigrants-rights\/immigrants-rights-and-detention\/working-uncover-how-ice-treats-pregnant-women\">American\nCivil Liberties Union<\/a> claimed that \u201cwith aggressive enforcement\npractices targeting immigrants, an expansion of the detention system, and the\nremoval of various oversight mechanisms, pregnant women in ICE detention face\nmore danger than ever before.\u201d <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, when a detained illegal alien from <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2018\/03\/30\/hondurans-broke-country-now-theyre-headed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Honduras<\/a> recently went into premature labor and delivered a stillborn child, the open borders lobby, jumped at the opportunity to heap scorn on ICE and its sister agency U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) (CBP arrests illegal aliens encountered on the Southern border and ICE detains them):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/honduran-woman-immigration-custody-gives-birth-premature-stillborn-baby-n975856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">NBC News<\/a><\/em>quoted Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.) who demanded &#8220;nothing less than a full accounting of the circumstances surrounding this tragic event, including the government\u2019s actions.&#8221; <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>And the Latino news website <em><a href=\"http:\/\/remezcla.com\/culture\/honduran-woman-stillborn-baby-ice-cbp-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Remezcla<\/a><\/em> bemoaned the fact that a stillbirth is not considered an in-custody death by ICE or CBP, implying that the agencies are trying to cover up a \u201ctrack record of mistreating this vulnerable community\u201d ( <em>i.e.<\/em>, pregnant migrant women).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But here\u2019s the thing: The government voluntarily released a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/news\/releases\/joint-statement-ice-and-cbp-stillbirth-custody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">ICE\/CBP statement<\/a>, giving full account of its actions. And it appears, that ICE and CBP employees did everything correctly: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The illegal alien \u2013 who has not been named due to privacy concerns \u2013 was six months pregnant when apprehended by CBP.<\/li><li>CBP immediately took her to a hospital for a medical screening. <\/li><li>She was cleared by doctors and transferred to ICE custody. <\/li><li>While in ICE custody, she received medical care from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/ice-health-service-corps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">ICE Health Service Corps<\/a> (IHSC), which is staffed by clinical care providers from the U.S. Public Health Service.<\/li><li>When she went into labor, IHSC personnel attended to her and called EMS personnel and transported her to a local hospital.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Frankly, it\u2019s hard to imagine that either agency could have done <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2019\/02\/21\/border-patrol-officers-are-not-doctors-immigrationreform-com\/\" target=\"_blank\">anything better<\/a>. And any reasonable observer would suspect that premature labor was brought on by the stresses associated with a 2,500 mile walk from Honduras to the United States. The <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2017\/08\/03\/hes-still-country-illegally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">choices<\/a> that migrants make sometimes have harsh consequences but that doesn\u2019t mean that our immigration laws are cruel or inhumane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, that type of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2018\/03\/22\/abolishing-ice-indecent-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\">realistic assessment<\/a> doesn\u2019t fit the borderless world contingent\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2018\/05\/09\/usa-today-bending-immigration-facts-fit-open-borders-narrative\/\" target=\"_blank\">narrative<\/a>. They want everyone to believe that detaining a pregnant woman is a \u201chuman rights violation.\u201d It isn\u2019t. When pregnant women are convicted of crimes, we send them to prison. There is no reason why our <a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/author\/mattobrien\/page\/7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">immigration enforcement<\/a> policies should be any different. Especially when so many illegal aliens abscond, failing to show up at Immigration Court hearings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s always tragic when a woman\nloses a baby. But pregnant illegal aliens eventually give birth to children who\ngain birthright citizenship \u2013 and a host of rights and privileges that\naccompany it. We simply can\u2019t afford to send the message to every female\nborder-jumper and visa-overstayer that pregnancy is a\n\u201cget-out-of-immigration-jail-free\u201d card. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2017, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ended its practice of releasing all pregnant immigration violators who were not subject to mandatory detention or extraordinary circumstances warranting detention. That action was taken in order to better align ICE detention policies with President Trump\u2019s January 2017 Executive Order, \u201cEnhancing Public Safety in the Interior<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/03\/08\/pregnancy-is-no-get-out-of-jail-free-card-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":17820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4796,1450],"tags":[1093,1524,71],"yst_prominent_words":[2300,2118,1995,4794,1918,4792,4790,2013,2010,2008,1963,4789,2411,4793,4791,4795,2432,1939,1933,1957],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21199,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21198\/revisions\/21199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21198"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}